Jews make up no more than 2 percent of the US population, so in a numerical sense, they are certainly a minority, and a small enough minority that many decisions are made without any consideration of the impact of those decisions on Jews.Some people conflate the concepts of minority status with underprivileged or oppressed minorities.For most of the past 1000 years, Jews were undoubtedly oppressed. An estimated 1/4 of the European Jewish population was murdered during the Crusades, Jews were expelled from country after couontry during this period, and many Jewish towns suffered routine bouts of murder in the years since. The Holocaust is only the most recent example, more industrialized than prior examples, but fully in their spirit. Scattered people in the US, carrying knives and guns, de