There is nothing innocent about confusing antisemitism with anti-Zionism. Italian semiologist Valentina Pisanty (Milan, 1969) asks a rather provocative question at the beginning of Antisemita! (Comanegra, translated by Marta Nin): "How is it possible that in the name of the memory of the Holocaust we have collectively thrown open the doors to the return of ultranationalists in Europe and their consolidation in Israel?" A professor at the University of Bergamo and author of essays on interpretive semiotics, fairy tales, humor, political discourse, the rhetoric of racism, and memory, she analyzes how the use of the word antisemite has changed. Pisanty argues that the word antisemite "has been hijacked" by the Israeli right with the support of many international organizations officially tasked with fighting racism and antisemitism. All of this, together, according to Pisanty, with the approval of almost all Western governments.