Sick of Being Called a Colonizer

Last night I had to sit through a girl in my public speaking class give a persuasive speech on "why being anti-zionist isn't antisemitic." She claimed to be a credible source because she's Jewish.

Two of her bullet points were that:

• Zionism = Colonialism

• Ethnostates are wrong

How can someone claiming to be Jewish call Jewish people colonizers? Or, how do you not see the hypocrisy in claiming that Isreal is an ethnostate in comparison to Palestine? Does she not know the history of either peoples or the land and their religious context. Does she not know what Mecca is? Does she not understand the importance of Jerusalem?

Anyways. No, I do not condone genocide. I think what Netanyahu is doing is wrong. But yes, I feel it's antisemitic to say that Jewish people do not have a right to the holy land that they have been removed from multiple times through out history.

Am I wrong? Where I live, I do not have a strong Jewish community to discuss these things...

Edit: I am in the US and attend the most liberal of all the University of California schools.