The “hotbed” comments can only come from those who pay too much attention to the Israeli/Palestinian political activists who engage in shouting matches with each other. The noisiest of them generally do tend to be anti-Jewish/Arab (i.e. racist, as opposed to merely being critical of the policies of specific governments and political parties) and tend to drown out more reasonable voices. This is probably true anywhere that Israeli/Palestinian politics shows up.
Everyone else just ignores them.