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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi spoke out against purported connections between the White House and the alt-right movement and white supremacists, citing the "poisonous attitudes we are witnessing now" in a speech before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's annual conference Tuesday.

Pelosi briefly brought up the 2016 election to note the rise of both movements in a jab against President Trump and the White House. Pelosi's comments were likely directed at Steve Bannon, the White House chief strategist, and his work for Breitbart News prior to joining the Trump campaign last summer.

"We come together in the aftermath of an election that left our country divided, but our democracy is strong and God is always with us," Pelosi said. "Our faith tells us that we have not done enough to rid our nation of poisonous attitudes we are witnessing now.

"A presidential campaign where hate speech went unchallenged, an atmosphere that emboldened anti-Semites to desecrate Jewish cemeteries. Hate crimes continuing to increase. White supremacists and the alt-right that feel empowered and connected to the White House. That is unacceptable," Pelosi said to applause in the crowd.

Throughout Pelosi's speech, she talked up the relationship between the two countries and spoke up against a rise in anti-Semitic threats and attacks.

Pelosi was latest in a long line of congressional leaders to address the conference, along with House Speaker Paul Ryan, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy. Vice President Mike Pence also addressed the conference on Sunday night.

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When CBS correspondent Scott Pelley sat down with Michael Cernovich, founder of alt-right blog Danger and Play, on Sunday night's episode of 60 Minutes to discuss fake news, it quickly became apparent that Cernovich's definition of "truth" was not the same as Pelley's. Cernovich's blog which Pelley noted has "become a magnet for readers with a taste for stories with no basis in fact" was one of several websites that pushed the Pizzagate story, the conspiracy theory that Hillary Clinton was operating a child sex-trafficking operation in the back of a D.C. pizzeria which led a man to open fire in that pizzeria last December.

"These news stories are fakes," Pelley said, right off the bat. "They're definitely not fake," Cernovich said, insisting the stories were "not lies at all" and "100 percent true."

When Pelley asked if Cernovich was just saying that because "it's important for marketing" his website, Cernovich maintained he believed it. "I don't say anything that I don't believe," Cernovich said, claiming that's a "high bar" because he's an attorney.

Pelley pointed to a baseless headline published on Cernovich's blog, "Hillary Clinton has Parkinson's Disease, physician confirms," to see if he could get Cernovich to admit that may have been "misleading." The story was sourced to an anesthesiologist who had never met the Democratic presidential nominee, and was later denied by the National Parkinson Foundation and Clinton's doctor.

But Cernovich stood by it. "I don't take anything Hillary Clinton is gonna say at all as true. I'm not gonna take her on her word," he said. "The media says we're not gonna take Donald Trump on his word. And that's why we are in these different universes."

Watch the 60 Minutes segment below. Becca Stanek

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Last week, Sesame Street got a new resident in Julia, an orange-haired Muppet with autism. Funny Or Die has envisioned a distressingly realistic possibility for another new Muppet in the form of Stan, a character that aims to educate children on the issues important to the eminently punchable alt-right, a subsection of society identifiable by their dislike of political correctness and admiration for national socialism. Its all a gag, and the real Sesame Street is far too forward-thinking to do anything like this, but they flesh the concept out with surprising depth.

Stan would evoke Bert by way of Hitler Youth, what with his toothbrush mustache and greasy undercut. Stans fire-engine-red shirt proclaims, LOCK HER UP! while the character himself spouts infectious catchphrases like Where are the emails?; So much winning; and Thinking your daughter is hot is fine. His backstory, apparently, involves Stan having run away from home due to his liberal snowflake parents. He was drawn to Sesame Street because its initials are SS, just like the Schutzstaffel, Hitlers paramilitary organization in Nazi Germany.

Being alt-right means that Stan often flails his arms around when someone refutes his bullshit with facts, hypothetical puppeteer Debra Thompson says in the article. His back is often hunched also, as if even gravity hates him and wants to push him directly to hell where he belongs. Its very interesting to control Stan and it also makes me hate myself. You can get many more details on the speculative fiction of Stans trip to Sesame Street here, then spend the rest of the day envisioning how he would shame Cookie Monster, shitpost about Elmo, rail against the companionship of Bert and Ernie, and interrupt the Counts number-counting segments to take his shirt off and drink milk.

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In an oddball crossbreed betweenleftist language and retroanti-Semitic tropes,posters that read End Jewish Privilege appearedonUniversity of Illinois at Chicagos campusearlier this month.

The posters proclaimed, Ending white privilege starts with ending Jewish privilege, followed by an image of a pyramid with Jews at the top and goyim not drawn to scale at the bottom.

Eva Zeltser, a UIC junior, told New Voices, My reaction was basically disbelief. In some ways, I wasnt surprised because of all the active anti-Semitism prevalent throughout college campuses across the country Its really difficult grasping that that kind of hatred is still so real and alive today.

But thats the thing. Whats strange about this poster campaign is it isnt the usual anti-Semitism, real or supposed, that we often find ourselves wrangling about on campus: conflations of Zionism and Judaism or thestraightforward dorm door swastika.

Its this bizarre hybrid between the language of todays left and some of the top ten hits for oldest anti-Semitic stereotypes, now often found onthe alt-right: Jews are money-grubbing, were conspiratorially amassing power, muahaha.

Essentially, this is the mutant half-squirrel half-narwhal of campus anti-Semitism, the Frankensteins monster of campus anti-Semitism You get the point. The parts just dont fit together and the result is an amalgamation of misapplied ideas from different parts of the political spectrum put together haphazardly into one perfectly weird poster project.These posters usea progressive concept, privilege, to ironically marginalize and make other a minority group in the exact same way Jews are beingdiscriminated against byan element on the right.

Justlike mutant narwhal squirrels shouldnt exist, neither should a left that sounds eerily like the alt-right or an alt-right that coopts the language of the left.Its just wrong.

And, as a progressive, it also feels personal. Many Jewish studentsembrace and actively take part in campus conversationsabout privilege, which is why these posters hitso hard in the kishkes.This kind of campaign arguably misappropriates ourleftist values and mixes themwith the same anti-Semitic rhetoric as ouralt-right Twitter trolls which is incidentally full of the same conspiracy theories used to persecute ourgreat grandparents.

Asecond batch ofposters was found that same weekby UIC third-year Valeriya Volodarskaya, and they werent any better. One read, Maybe Jewish donations to the University come at too high a price Questioning the influence of university donors is not anti-Semitic.

Other posterscompared Gaza to Auschwitz and arguedcountries unfairly jail people who question the 6 million.

The language on there didnt make any sense, Volodarskaya said. Since when is attacking someone social justice?

I find myself asking the same question.These posters are oldschool anti-semitism complete with a defense of Holocaust denial couched in social justice terms, afascinating rhetorical crossbreed that disturbs me both as alefty and a Jew.

This is new, and I dont like what it means for the left on campus. Either we have a fringe that misapplies our ideology in a way that sounds more like the alt-right than our allies ora white supremacy thats learned to use the language of the left.

In either case, as progressives, we need to layclaim to leftist terms toensure they remain toolsin service of our highest ideals, not marginalization.

Sara Weissman is the editor in chief of New Voices. Kvell or kvetch to her at editor@newvoices.org.

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