Whoopi Goldberg

Anti-Defamation League (ADL) chief Jonathan Greenblatt on Tuesday called out actress and comedian Whoopi Goldberg for what he said were “offensive” remarks ...

“Failure to address the issue would raise serious questions about her sincerity and solidarity with her Jewish viewers and all those who experience any form of hate.” “As a result of the racial Nuremberg laws, six million Jews, including at least 1.5 million Jewish children, who were slaughtered in the Nazi gas chambers and death camps during the Holocaust, as were millions of others.” “Germans considered themselves the ‘master race’ and claimed all other non-Aryans were inferior. “In a moment when antisemitic incidents have surged across the US, she should realize that making such ignorant statements can have real consequences.” This is a trope we still hear echoed by white supremacists in the U.S. They were not killing racial; they were killing physical.

The Anti-Defamation League is condemning Whoopi Goldberg for saying the Holocaust wasn't originally about race.

“She needs to apologize immediately and actually commit to educating herself on the true nature of #antisemitism.” She also doubled down and said the Holocaust “wasn’t originally” about race. It’s about man’s inhumanity to man.” I believe that the Holocaust was about race, and I am still as sorry now as I was then that I upset, hurt and angered people. When she made similar comments earlier this year, we explained how the Nazi regime was inherently racist.” “I tried to convey to the reporter what I had said and why, and attempted to recount that time.

Whoopi Goldberg has again tried to make the argument that the Holocaust wasn't about race, and for the second time this year, the ADL corrected her.

As for Goldberg’s timeline about “who they were killing first,” the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum shared a letter that Adolf Hitler wrote in 1919 — fourteen years before the opening of the first concentration camp. I believe that the Holocaust was about race, and I am still as sorry now as I was then that I upset, hurt and angered people. In the statement, Goldberg indicates that, in the interview, she was simply recounting what she said earlier this year, not “doubling down on hurtful comments.” She also says plainly that “I believe that [the Holocaust](https://deadline.com/tag/the-holocaust/) was about race, and I am still as sorry now as I was then that I upset, hurt and angered people.” She needs to apologize immediately and actually commit to educating herself on the true nature of I also stand with the Jewish people.” So that leads me to believe that we’re probably not a race,'” The View host said in the interview, which was published during Hanukkah. And for the second time this year, the ADL and other groups that combat anti-Semitism corrected her. I regret my comments, and I stand corrected. I tried to convey to the reporter what I had said and why, and attempted to recount that time. When she made similar comments earlier this year, we explained how the Nazi regime was inherently racist. In this time of rising antisemitism, I want to be very clear when I say that I always stood with the Jewish people and always will. They were not killing racial; they were killing physical.

Whoop Goldberg apologizes after facing backlash from Jewish leaders due to her claim that the holocaust wasn't about race.

“The Jewish people around the world have always had my support and that will never waver,” Goldberg wrote at the time. “I’ve asked her to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments,” Godwin wrote. “She needs to apologize immediately and actually commit to educating herself on the true nature of So that leads me to believe that we’re probably not a race,’ ” Goldberg said in the Dec. “When she made similar comments earlier this year, we explained how the Nazi regime was inherently racist.” “My best friend said, ‘Not for nothing is there no box on the census for the Jewish race.

Whoopi Goldberg is an American comedian, actress, author, talk show host, singer-songwriter, and political activist. Whoopi had a very successful film ...

In the follow-up, Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, she played the same part again. She has also performed as a lead on stage, most notably in a 2010 Broadway version of Sister Act. Whoopi finally found her voice in the 1990s, beginning with her role as a psychic in the film Ghost (1990), which also starred Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore. Her second major break came in 1985 when Steven Spielberg noticed her and hired her in the lead part of Cecile in The Color Purple. She made her debut in the 1982 film Citizen: I'm Not Losing My Mind, I'm Giving It Away. She has largely worked as a television discussion show host in recent years.

Whoopi Goldberg claimed she wasn't "doubling down" on previous Holocaust comments. "I always stood with the Jewish people and always will," she said.

“So I said that I felt the Holocaust wasn’t about race. She was out as “The View” co-host for two weeks. “It was never my intention to appear as if I was doubling down on hurtful comments, especially after talking with and hearing people like rabbis and old and new friends weighing in.” She needs to apologize immediately and actually commit to educating herself on the true nature of [#antisemitism](https://twitter.com/hashtag/antisemitism?src=hashtag_click).” “But you would have thought that I’d taken a big old stinky dump on the table, butt naked.” So that leads me to believe that we’re probably not a race,’” Goldberg told the news outlet.

Goldberg says she didn't meant to repeat her controversial comments, she was just recounting what had happened.

I believe that the Holocaust was about race, and I am still as sorry now as I was then that I upset, hurt and angered people. I tried to convey to the reporter what I had said and why, and attempted to recount that time. I believe the Holocaust was about race, and I am still as sorry now as I was then.” You can read her full statement below. The Times interviewer brought up Goldberg’s Holocaust comments and noted that “Nazis saw Jews as a race,” to which Goldberg responded, “Yes, but that’s the killer, isn’t it? She also said at the time that she was going to take what everyone had said to her and would “never bring it up again.” [The Times brought it up again](https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/whoopi-goldberg-till-film-hollywood-race-cancel-culture-c5lgc656v) and she responded by reiterating the comments from February that got her in so much trouble.

“It doesn't change the fact that you could not tell a Jew on a street. You could find me. You couldn't find them. That was the point I was making,” the actor — ...

And then goes on to say “Even as a child I knew I was a girl”. Since the one in question played an endearing, spiritual and heroic role in Sister Act and elsewhere, she is presumed to be a “good” person, albeit with some charming, forgivable flaws – and beloved of mother superior, bishop and Pope! I thought it was not unlike where a man changes his name to Mary, declares that he is a woman and wears a frock to prove it. Whoopi is engaging in “presentism”, and is actually licensed by the redefining of “racism” by many, the ADL included, to apply only when non-whites are being racialized by whites. The author is talking about pretending to have a certain background when you don’t, which is more like “fabrication”. At worst she will say she is educating herself and “doing the work”. [defending her claim](https://www.foxnews.com/media/whoopi-goldberg-heat-repeating-incendiary-holocaust-remarks-learned-nothing) that the Holocaust was white-on-white violence, a clash of white ethnic groups that resulted in the deaths of millions of Jewish people in Central and Eastern Europe. The View has floated into my consciousness sometimes on YouTube and it is truly chock full of shrieking awful women. Jews, Slavs, Roma and Blacks were deemed under Nazi ideology to be “sub-human”, whereas pretty dark skinned Persians were classed as fellow “Aryans” and the Japanese and Arabs were valued allies. And white people did not simply march in and take over while the locals stood their picking their noses. The most shocking thing is people actually watch the View. Goldberg’s remarks admittedly aren’t tied to the [various colourful conspiracy theories](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/20/opinion/kyrie-irving-kanye-west-antisemitism.html) that informed Ye’s statements, nor has she praised Adolf Hitler’s accomplishments, but she has nevertheless slain a sacred cow by appearing to aggrandise black suffering at the expense of Jewish suffering.

'The View' co-host apologizes after repeating assertion that landed her 2-week suspension, says she does believe the Nazi-orchestrated genocide was racial: ...

The interview with the Sunday Times came as Goldberg promotes her new film, “Till,” in which she plays the mother of civil rights activist Mamie Till-Mobley. I believe that the Holocaust was about race, and I am still as sorry now as I was then that I upset, hurt and angered people,” Goldberg continued. Sign in to stop seeing this](//crm.timesofisrael.com/sign-in) Goldberg, born Caryn Elaine Johnson, has no Jewish ancestry but adopted her stage name to be deliberately Jewish-sounding, in part because she has said she personally identifies with Judaism. “You would have thought that I’d taken a big old stinky dump on the table, butt naked,” Goldberg said. “I’m still learning a lot and believe me, I heard everything everyone said to me.