“The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg issued an apology after receiving criticism over remarks she made about the Holocaust.
Goldberg released a statement Tuesday and commented on remarks she made about the Holocaust not being about race.
“Recently, while doing press in London, I was asked about my comments from earlier this year. I tried to convey to the reporter what I had said and why and attempted to recount that time,” she said.
Goldberg added, “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. I’m still learning a lot and believe me, I heard everything everyone said to me.”
She explained, “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. My sincere apologies again, especially to everyone who thought this was a fresh rehash of the subject.”
Concluding her statement, Goldberg said, “I promise it was not. 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. My support for them has not wavered and never will.”
Read Goldberg’s statement below:
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— Ari Ingel (@OGAride) December 28, 2022
Goldberg was called out by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for her “deeply offensive” remarks, IJR reported.
“Yet again, [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,” ADL chief Jonathan Greenblatt said in a statement.
He continued, “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.”
Greenblatt concluded the statement by calling on Goldberg to apologize.
According to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, from the very start of the Nazi Party, Adolf Hitler and officials “adapted, manipulated, and radicalized the unfounded belief in the existence of an ‘Aryan race’ and its superiority to fit their ideology and policies.”
Additionally, they used the idea to “support the idea that Germans belonged to a ‘master race,'” the museum explained.
