German orientalism targeted Jews within the same colonial framework Said described

Evidence

This growing awareness on the part of scholars of the place of the Jews in orientalist discourse is connected with a change of attitude toward Edward Said’s 1978 book Orientalism. Following its publication, Jewish scholars figured prominently among those who rejected Said’s thesis altogether, on the basis of the valid argument that Said ignored German orientalism in his analysis. Over the years, as part of a serious reevaluation and revision of Said’s thesis, the argument that Said ignored German orientalism has remained, but this criticism has now received a completely different meaning: not that German orientalism represented a different perception, but that it should be included within the same framework of the colonial imagination, with the difference that it was directed primarily against the Jews. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 632

Categorization

• XREF: Revises the standard Jewish critique of Said: German orientalism is no exception to orientalism but its application to internal Others, echoing scholarly arguments like those in Shelley Hiam’s work.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 632