It depends how you define "people". Italian/Irish/German/Serb/Kurdish/etc. nationalism all make sense. "White" nationalism and "White" identity don't.
I don't think we can declare "Jewish is coherent; white is not". There are varying levels of coherence. Bavarian > German > European > White Same w Jews. Ashkenazi > Jewish > "People of the Book" > Middle Eastern > ...
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There's a pretty clear predicate for Jewish, not so much for white.
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What unifies "whites" qua "whites"? Not history (unless you go back to pre-history), language, ethnicity, experience, or anything else. The average Ashkenazi Jewish genetic distance is 5th cousins. Jews have a common language, religion. history, tradition, ethnicity
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You can always draw smaller or larger circles, but my point is simply that when you draw the circle at the level of "white," the in-group so broad as to lack of any commonalities besides relative lack of melanin.
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And "People of the book" is a religious grouping (which includes all Christians and Muslims, regardless of ethnicity or origin), which doesn't work here in what is otherwise an ethnic grouping subsumed within "Middle Eastern"
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