I think the only way this could be justifiable is if it is a clever advert for @Baddiel's book. I mean, literally has "Should Jews count" in the title...
https://twitter.com/benjamincohen/status/1366394802129010693
There is an interesting debate whether Jews are a religion/ethnicity/ethnicities. In law, being Jewish is both a race and a religion for discrimination, harassment etc. But the framing here - as "will we let Jews be an ethnic minority" is insensitive and historically ignorant
Rather than go into more detail I recommend watching @benjamincohen's interview as he put it really well
https://twitter.com/benjamincohen/status/1366398355409170435?s=20
Reality is there are few Jews in Britain (c300,000) so it's no surprise that we have to regularly face ignorance and be educators. But given 2/3 of Europe's Jewish population (very much seen as an ethnicity) were murdered in living memory it isn't too much to expect sensitivity
Many Jews (including me) struggle on diversity forms about which box to tick. Black and minority ethnic? White "other"? Or for non-white Jews, errr? I would prefer the form to say "Jewish" and don't really understand why it doesn't but ho hum
And you will often find British Jews struggling to agree as to how to approach these kind of issues - understandably as in recent history Jews were murdered in their millions whether they were identifiably Jewish or 'assimilated'. Hitler didn't discriminate in that sense
But, as I said, despite there being a debate over Jews being an ethnicity or a religion, any discussion should be sensitive to the very recent genocide which you might think entitles Jews to be sensitive to non-Jews asking whether they "should" be counted as one thing or other
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