Judaism is linked to the Jewish people like Christianity to its church and Islam to its great Arab nation. There's no church without christianity, there's no Jewish people without Judaism. We simply have no other content to relate to as a people. So there are those who suggest to create an Israeli people independant in its religious origins, or further - a Canaanite people over the ruins of its religious origins, but currently it's the Israeli people whose existence is in doubt, and not the Jewish people.

One may say that the new Israeli people is as artificial as its Palestenian counterpart. Both were made up as a result of recent local political shifts.