Though you can never come up with a reason for them "not counting".
I have, time after time, and throughout most of "Jewish history", Jewish people have agreed with me, that is, until the Zionists re-wrote the history books. Judaism is a
religion,
not an ethnicity. There may be some tenuous genetic links with people from Afghanistan to Morocco, but that's like saying I'm a "Roman" because I follow Roman Catholicism and may have some genetic material common to people from Spain to Greece.
Still can't come up with a reason for the Jewish people not counting as a people or a culture or a nationality or an ethnic group or whatever word you want to use, can you? Yawn.
Still waiting for you to come up with some definitive criteria for why people (Kurds, Palestinians, Catalans, Basques, Cypriots - both the Turkish and Greek varieties, Tibetans, Koreans, Iroquois, Cherokee, Mayan, Coast Salish, Jordanians, Syrians, Ukraines, Poles, Germans, Icelanders, Serbians, Pakistanis, Indians, Japanese, Persians etc, etc, etc) have the right to national self-determination and the Jewish people do not.