Whoopi Goldberg makes an apology for controversial remarks on Holocaust

• The co-host of the view made other controversial remarks about the Holocaust.
• Earlier this year and Goldberg later issued a statement clarifying her position.
• Later, she was given a two-week suspension from the ABC talk show.

Whoopi Goldberg is making her position clear. The co-host of The View made other controversial remarks about the Holocaust earlier this year, and Goldberg later issued a statement clarifying her position.

“Recently while doing press in London, I was asked about my comments from earlier this year,” the 67-year-old said in a statement to the news on Dec. 27. “I tried to convey to the reporter what I had said and why, and attempted to recount that time.”

Goldberg said in his statement, “In particular, after speaking with and hearing from folks like rabbis and old and new friends who weighed in, it was never my goal to sound as though I was doubling down on cruel remarks. I’m still learning a lot, and I did hear everything that was spoken to me, I assure you.”

The Oscar winner also reaffirmed her belief that the “Holocaust was about race” and declared that she has never wavered in her support for the Jewish community.

“I am still as sorry now as I was then that I upset, hurt, and angered people,” the statement concluded. “My sincere apologies again, especially to everyone who thought this was a fresh rehash of the subject. I promise it was not. In this time of rising anti-Semitism, I want to be very clear when I say that I always stood with the Jewish people and always will.”

ICYMI, the talk show host drew criticism for comments he made during a discussion on The View on January 31 that the Holocaust was “not about race” but rather “about man’s inhumanity to man.” After receiving criticism online for her opinions on the matter, Goldberg apologized, claiming that she “should have emphasized 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,” she wrote in a social media statement Feb 1. “I stand corrected.”

Later, she was given a two-week suspension from the ABC talk show. On December 26, Goldberg once more found herself in hot water when she told The Sunday Times that she didn’t see why her comments from January caused such a stir and argued that some Jews are likewise divided over whether they should be treated as a race or a religion.

“My best friend said, ‘Not for nothing is there no box on the census for the Jewish race,'” she explained. “So that leads me to believe that we’re probably not a race.”

In order to refute the journalist’s assertion that race might refer to characteristics other than skin color, Goldberg allegedly used the example of how the Nazis evaluated Jewish people’s facial traits in order to “prove” they belonged to a specific race.

“They did that to Black people too,” she argued. “But 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 CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, Greenblatt, come out to condemn the Till star’s most recent comments, calling them “extremely insensitive.” Greenblatt had previously accepted Goldberg’s February apology.

“Whoopi Goldberg’s comments about the Holocaust and race are incredibly disappointing, especially given that this is not the first time she had made remarks like this,” he said in a statement to The Wrap on Dec. 27. “In a moment when anti-Semitic incidents have surged across the US, she should realize that making such ignorant statements can have real consequences.”

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