Jewish immigrants encountered Eastern Jews before encountering the Arab East, fostering internal orientalism.

Evidence

As the first encounter with the East for many Jewish immigrants in Palestine was the encounter with the Jewish East—the communities of “exotic” Jews from Asia and the Mediterranean—this often exposed the foundations of the “internal orientalism” in Jewish Israeli society. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 589

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the internal orientalism dynamic in other colonial/postcolonial contexts where the colonized assimilate the colonizer’s internal hierarchy among their own subgroups.
• SEED: Angle for an essay: internal orientalism as a distinct mechanism whereby a settler/returning people replicate colonial hierarchy against their own co-ethnics.