Attacked by Anti-Semites for Her Jewish Roots, an Italian Politician Gives Credence to Anti-Semitism
The “Etruscan nose.”
March 6, 2023
Attacked by Anti-Semites for Her Jewish Roots, an Italian Politician Gives Credence to Anti-Semitism
The “Etruscan nose.”
In an electoral upset last month, Elly Schlein was chosen to be the new leader of Italy’s Democratic party. Schlein, the daughter of a Jewish political scientist, represents her party’s radical wing, and her victory over the centrists has been compared to Jeremy Corbyn’s takeover of the British Labor party from the Blairites in 2015. She has also been the subject of a great deal of ugly ad-hominem abuse—concerning her personal life, her Jewish forbears, and her supposedly Semitic nose. Asked about this at a press conference, she pointed out that she is not Jewish (since her mother is a Gentile) and, moreover, that she possesses “a typically Etruscan nose.” Ben Cohen comments:
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