All Zionist attitudes toward Arabs stayed within the orientalism framework

Evidence

The process of Jewish colonization embodied the perspective of both the colonized and the colonizer, by transforming the colonized and assimilating the perspective of the colonizer. Indeed within the Zionist context, a variety of attitudes toward the Orient have emerged, and it would be misleading to ignore the possibilities for multiple perceptions of the concept of “East” and “West” that exist within this culture. Such attitudes promise to lead to alternative options of defining Jewish collectivity in Palestine. Nonetheless, it is important to emphasize the obvious orientalist dimension inherent in Zionist thinking and in the practices it produced. Zionists developed a range of attitudes toward the Orient and toward the Arabs, from romantic desire to a total denial; but all of them remained within the framework of orientalist dichotomy, and served to create the “new Jew,” whom Zionism wished to define as a new European, and not an oriental. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 638

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Directly parallels the essay on how ‘immodesty’ moral panics encode political identity — Zionism’s range of attitudes from romantic desire to total denial all encode a European self-definition.