However, for much of Jewish history, they were an ethnoreligious group, so it is also an ethnic designation with a large overlap with the religious even when excluding into/out of converts.
You can criticize Jews on their shared ideological beliefs just the same that you can criticize communists, Muslims, or even Objectivists.
You can also hold opinions on actions taken throughout Jewish history if even if the Jew you are discussing those opinions with wasn’t there for those events.
I am just as valid criticizing major Jewish institutions pushing the proto-trans movement during the Weimar period as I am criticizing FDR’s domestic policy during the same time period (and, yes, this comparison was drawn by their contemporaries).
It is also valid to hypothesize that the shared statistical characteristics of a group may have an impact on why they are under/over represented in one thing or another.
For example: recognizing that Samoan cultural preference for dating very large men as a beauty standard and logically connecting that with their overrepresentation in sports like professional football does NOT deny the existence of Samoan midgets, but it DOES highlight a correct connection between cultural practices and their consequences.
Understanding group commonalities and respecting individual differences are not mutually exclusive.
In the same vein as the Samoans, acknowledging the FACT that blacks have a dramatically disproportionate rate of violent crime and, thereby, being weary of blacks you don’t know is NOT mutually exclusive of respecting the character of an individual black person you know personally and whose character you can trust.
Your defense here is disingenuous. My original broad statement was deliberately made vaguely as to A) not make anything personal out of respect for your individuality and B) to avoid the exact “everything everything everything is about the Jews” sidebar from the original discussion on censorship.
The defense you used implies a lack of an underlying identity that Jews share to which the term “Jews” refers and, by extension, that criticism of that identity is a contradiction. It is a form of no true Scotsman or “but I’m 5’6”.”
