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Whoopi Goldberg Blasted For New Comments About Jews, Race & The Holocaust – Deadline

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December 27, 2022
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For the second time this year, Whoopi Goldberg has tried to make the argument that the Holocaust wasn’t about race, this time qualifying the contention with the idea that it didn’t start out that way, even if it ended up there. And for the second time this year, the ADL and other groups that combat anti-Semitism corrected her.

In an interview on Saturday with The Sunday Times to promote Till, in which she plays civil rights activist Mamie Till-Mobley’s mother, Goldberg spoke on the topic of race and suggested that there is a debate about whether Jews are a race or religious group.

“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,’” The View host said in the interview, which was published during Hanukkah.

Referencing Goldberg’s comments from January, in which she claimed the Holocaust was “not about race,” the Times interviewer reminded her that the “Nazis saw Jews as a race.”

Goldberg replied, “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?”

She continued: “It wasn’t originally [about 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. And then they made this decision.” 

In response, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt wrote on Twitter:

Whoopi Goldberg’s comments about the Holocaust and race are deeply offensive and incredibly ignorant. When she made similar comments earlier this year, we explained how the Nazi regime was inherently racist.

The Nazis set out to exterminate the Jewish people, whom they viewed as inferior to the mythical ‘Aryan master race.’ They used pseudo-scientific theories of race to justify their anti-Jewish “race laws” and systemic slaughter of millions.

It’s no coincidence that white supremacists in the U.S. today echo the Nazis’ “master race” claim as they spread their antisemitic and racist hate.

Additionally, Whoopi’s comments show a complete lack of awareness of the multiethnic, multiracial makeup of the Jewish community. She needs to apologize immediately and actually commit to educating herself on the true nature of #antisemitism.

Yet again, #WhoopiGoldberg’s comments about the Holocaust and race are deeply offensive and incredibly ignorant. When she made similar comments earlier this year, we explained how the Nazi regime was inherently racist. 🧵Read on…

— Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) December 27, 2022

Goldberg’s statements to the Times are all the more ironic given that, in her January on-air apology, The View host said that the Holocaust “is indeed about race, because Hitler and the Nazis considered the Jews to be an inferior race. Now, words matter — and mine are no exception. I regret my comments, and I stand corrected. I also stand with the Jewish people.”

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. In it, Hitler states in clear terms that “Jews are definitely a race,” calling Jewish people an “alien race, unable and unwilling to sacrifice its racial distinctiveness.”

The museum also reminded that “This text is one of the first major statements made by Hitler with regard to the Jewish question.” You can read it below.

Excerpt from Adolf Hitler’s letter on ‘the dangers currently presented by Jewry to our nation’ from 16 September 1919.

This text is one of the first major statements made by Hitler with regard to the Jewish question. pic.twitter.com/t56oHRWm2w

— Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) December 26, 2022





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