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Dear Thefake,
1) The Aufklarung didn’t have anything in it’s crosshairs, because it didn’t have any crosshairs. It wasn’t publicly realized until Spinoza’s philosophy was being openly debated. At that point, all the early philosophers were dead. Maybe you mean the age of Goethe and Schiller. But still, Judaism was very much in the background. If you meant Nietzsche, that is already after Marx. Germany was historically anti-Semitic. Is that your point?
2) The Dawn of the Enlightenment, could refer to many different periods. Whatever you are referring to probably had multiple reasons. I’m not being snarky. I’m just not following.
3) The enlighteners attacked every religion that relied on revelation. I don’t get your strawman here. so Leibniz, Mendelssohn, Herder, and so on, were not enlightened?
We could throw around accusations endlessly. Some would forcefully say that anyone that even thinks (You and I?) about Idealism vs. Materialism is attacking Judaism. You’ve totally lost me. Is your point about Marx himself, or his philosophical association? Either way, you have to start from something concrete. Because there are too many dissenting approaches.