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For a comparison of anything (that includes with or to Nazis and the Nazi Ideology) with the actions of the nation state of Israel by itself (no mentions of "Jews" or "Jewish Religion") to be "anti-semitic", you have to treat the nation state of Israel as being the equivalent to the Jewish Religion. It is logically impossible to do justify that equivalence without passing through a "all Jews are the same" or "all Jews think the same" logic step: if some Jews do not act or think the same as all others and thus do no see themselves or their religion represented by the nation state of Israel (and there are lots and lots of example of people who are both Jews and do not think Israel represents them), then Israel is not the same as the "Jewish Religion" hence criticism of Israel is not the same as criticism of the "Jewish Religion" and hence by definition it is not anti-semitic and is something else altogether.
(IF I was making claims about actual "Jews" or the "Jewish Religion", they could indeed be anti-semitic. But I am not because I don't even think like that: I'm judging and comparing only the actions of the nation state of Israel and purelly on their own merits and demerits and even then I very much doubt all Israelis think the same and approve of these actions, hence I often will mention the Israeli leadership, Israeli Authorities or Israeli State, as making claims for all Israeli citiziens is itself a "generalization about people born in a specific geography", a form of racism).
That claim of yours that you know for all "Jews" what represents them all and thus that criticising said "representative" deeply insults them all, is logically anchored in the most disgusting kind of disenfranchising and denying of the individuality of human beings (in this case by being members of a specific religion) there is, hence betrays your thinking and judging along racial lines, also known as racism.
There are various cases of actual of actual Jews comparing the actions of the nation state of Israel to those of the Nazis, including a high profile case in Britain of a Holocaust Survivor making such claims, and those case should have made clear for you that by parroting that Israeli propaganda you are accusing actual Holocaust Survivor Jews of being anti-semite, implying they are "traitors to the race", which is the worst kind of Racism imaginable, and yet here you are, parroting the racist claims that Israel represents millions of human beings whose guilt and innocence and actions should be judged as block.
(I am actually disgusted at those who assume, presume, judge, defend and convict millions of human beings purely based of their race all the while thinking "I'm not a racist because I'm being positive towards that Race").
The unwinding of the Racism within yourself is not to "keep denying the individuality and agency of those born into a certain religion or with certain genetics, but now you're positive towards their 'race'", it's to stop treating all such people as one and stop in the name of millions of people treating some self-proclaim representative organisation as the voice, will and representative of all of them".
Assuming you've been indoctrinated, if ever and whenever you stop thinking like a racist, and thus stop treating everybody born into a religion and/or geography as being "all the same" and hence "all judged by different, specific metrics for that race" and "all by association 'victims' or 'aggressors'" it will be plain as day just how deeply racist the claims of leadership of Israel are, not just in claiming to represent all people of an entire religion and deserving different standards of judgement and different treatment as a group, but even in how that very same way of thinking is turned around into treating an entire etnicity as "guilty by association" to justify Israel's genocidal behaviour, very overtly treating all Palestians as being the same as Hamas, making frequent widspread claims that "Palestinians are violent" and even calling them all "human animals".