This old thing. It is wrong and has always been wrong. Quoth:
"Race is a social concept used to categorize humans into large and distinct populations or groups by anatomical, cultural, ethnic, genetic, geographical, historical, linguistic, religious, and/or social affiliation. First used to refer to speakers of a common language and then to denote national affiliations, in the 17th century, people began to use the term to relate to observable physical (i.e. phenotypical) traits." [0]
But more importantly, they are an ethnoreligious group, defined by shared ethnicity and religion. [1]
So, not all Jews are Jews, and not all Jews are Jews. But the classification is not always religious.
Please describe the difference between racial and religious discrimination. In practice, how does it differ? It's all the same; some group doesn't like you because of who and what you are.
Religions can be rely evil and bad. They often are.
You choose whether to follow an evil religion.
You can't choose what colour of skin you are born with or the facial bone structure.
You /can/ change those things later but it is expensive, requires surgery or bad chemicals and is really unpleasant.
Discriminating against religions is a completely different (and much more defensible) matter than discriminating against "race" or ethnicity.
The vast majority of people follow the dominant religion of the area they are born and/or their parents. In practice this makes it interchangeable with racism in most cases.
Many would disagree. I'd call it both. Can you further explain?
Probably not the best source: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews
Edit: down votes weren't mine.
