Jews are the most clannish people I have ever met and the most prone to shameless nepotism (speaking as Jew).

Jewish communities are more tightly knit, and the families in these communities more interwoven with one another than the average Protestant would be to their own.

My intuition would be that nepotism would be more rife with this kind of community makeup, if you know your distant family and your family friends very well they're much more likely to try to help you out.

Judaism isn’t immune to anti-intellectual fundamentalism.

A good example is the 11th Century Mediterranean world.

In the Muslim sphere of influence, Jewish culture was highly intellectual, and produced numerous scholars.

In the Christian sphere of influence, Jewish culture was highly fundamentalist, and produced almost no native Jewish scholars.

Heck, modern day Israel or New York offers almost the same contrast, as did the first century Middle East.

Judaisms tendency to split into these two camps, usually simultaneously, is one of its many fascinating features.

What does that have to do with nepotism?

> Judaism like Protestantism

Judaism is nothing like protestantism or even catholicism. If it were, we wouldn't have protestantism or catholicism. Judaism ( by that I mean real judaism ) is racial/ethnic and centered around bloodlines while protestantism is universal.

> promotes education and reading for all.

No. Judaism promotes the study of torah/tanakh and even that is only within their own people. Judaism most certainly does not promote education in the general sense and not to the general public. That modern jews in the west pursue education is not due to judaism but to european culture.

> Plus Judaism promotes some form of debate.

In a superficial manner. Like how protestants and catholics debate. Certainly not in the socratic way of the greeks.

Judaism didn't go around the world spreading literacy like Catholicism and especially Protestantism did. After all the jewish god is only for the jews while the christian god is for all humanity.