Most reasonable people don't have an issue with Jewish people immigrating to Palestine and eventually forming the state of Israel. The issue is that large areas of land that were almost wholly made up of Arab residents was basically stolen in 1948.
In Beersheeba, which makes up nearly half of modern-day Israel, the Arab population outnumbered the Jewish one by about 13:1 in the mid '40s. Acre was similar, with Arabs outnumbering the Jewish population 17:1, yet that became part of Israel and the Arab population was largely expelled and their land appropriated. There were essentially no Jews in Hebron, yet Israel took most of that too.
Not to mention, in the only 2 districts of Mandatory Palestine where Jewish residents were the largest ethnic group (like Jaffa and Haifa), the significant Arab population were forced out as the areas were depopulated, and their land and property appropriated by the state.
Taking opposition to those actions has nothing to do with antisemitism.
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