About a week late here, but thank you for posting! It's funny that, as a Jewish leftist, I've ignored so much of my own past and identity as a Jew (except for reading a bit of Arendt). I think this essay hits the nail on the head for being both a colonizer and colonized and how that is anti-semitic / alienating in itself. A third alienation for me is with establishment Judaism itself. My side of the family def feels the alienation because we don't go to temple every week and such. The bad jew kinda deal I guess.

Since reading through Anarchist Jewish identities, I think that the best way for the alienated Jew is through Yiddishland. Instead of playing into the tropes (as Arendt and this article states - "the strong arab jew"), we should be fighting directly against the anti-semitic tropes and developing an identity of our diasporic ancestors. Through the Yiddish language, food, and traditions, we can develop a community that fights against not only the colonizing Jewish class, but fights for ourselves and other proletariat. Ofc doesn't fully work for non-ashkenazis who don't have Yiddish routes though, but getting involved in the burgeoning culture has at least empowered me a bit.