Whoopi Goldberg renews controversial comments on Holocaust during Hanukkah
Julia Johnson
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As Hanukkah celebrations continued across the globe, Whoopi Goldberg reiterated her beliefs about Jewish people and the Holocaust, once again claiming that it did not have to do with race.
“Remember who they were killing first. They were not killing racial; they were killing physical. They were killing people they considered to be mentally defective,” The View host told the Sunday Times in a recent interview.
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Interviewer Janice Turner pressed her on the statement, explaining that “Nazis saw Jews as a race.”
“Yes, but that’s the killer, isn’t it? The oppressor is telling you what you are. Why are you believing them? They’re Nazis. Why believe what they’re saying?” Goldberg replied.
To justify her claim, she said, “you could not tell a Jew on a street. You could find me. You couldn’t find them.”
“My best friend said, ‘Not for nothing is there no box on the census for the Jewish race. So that leads me to believe that we’re probably not a race,’” Goldberg added.
In January, she similarly claimed that the Holocaust wasn’t “about race.”
“It’s about man’s inhumanity to man, that’s what it’s about,” she told her co-hosts at the time. She further insisted, “these are two white groups of people,” referring to the Nazis and Jewish people.
Her statements received immediate backlash from viewers. Soon after, ABC News President Kim Godwin announced that the host was being placed on a two-week suspension. “Effective immediately, I am suspending Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks for her wrong and hurtful comments,” Kim said. “While Whoopi has apologized, I’ve asked her to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments. The entire ABC News organization stands in solidarity with our Jewish colleagues, friends, family, and communities.”
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Goldberg issued an apology following the backlash, tweeting, “On today’s show, I said the Holocaust ‘is not about race, but about man’s inhumanity to man.’ I should have said it is about both. As Jonathan Greenblatt from the Anti-Defamation League shared, ‘The Holocaust was about the Nazi’s systematic annihilation of the Jewish people — who they deemed to be an inferior race.’ I stand corrected.”
“The Jewish people around the world have always had my support and that will never waiver. I’m sorry for the hurt I have caused. Written with my sincerest apologies,” she added.