| February 2, 2022
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Whoopi Goldberg argues on TV: ‘The Holocaust wasn’t about race’

Digging herself into an even deeper hole during a morning taping of the Stephen Colbert Show, Whoopi Goldberg attempted to control the narrative by explaining her racist comment without offering the apology, that was later scripted for her under advisement. #NoToleranceForAntiSemitism

By ANDREW LAPIN/JTA, JERUSALEM POST STAFF

 

In an awkward exchange with her co-hosts on the American TV show The View, actress and producer Whoopi Goldberg said, “The Holocaust isn’t about race,” but rather about “man’s inhumanity to man.”

The panel was discussing a Tennessee school board’s removal of the Holocaust book Maus from its curriculum earlier this month. All five co-hosts opposed the board’s decision, saying the acclaimed graphic memoir should be taught in classrooms. However, Goldberg differed strongly from her colleagues on the question of exactly why the Holocaust should be taught to students.

“If you’re going to do this, then let’s be truthful about it,” Goldberg said, before elaborating that “these [Jews and Nazis] are two white groups of people.”

Co-host Joy Behar objected, arguing that Nazis “considered Jews a different race.” Guest co-host Ana Navarro said, “It’s about white supremacy. It’s about going after Jews and Gypsies.” But Goldberg continued to speak.

“The minute you turn it into race, you go down this alley,” she said, as the show’s producers began playing music as a cue to cut to commercials.

Goldberg’s comments came amid a larger nationwide reckoning on the Holocaust and race education, as many conservative activists have fought to restrict the teaching of race-related topics in schools, while some American Jews have expressed discomfort around identifying themselves as simply “white.”

In his writings and speeches that would ultimately come to articulate his mass-extermination plans, Adolf Hitler repeatedly referred to Jews as a race rather than a religious group.

Following the backlash, Goldberg released a statement over social media apologizing for her choice of words.

“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,” she wrote.

“As Jonathan Greenblatt from the Anti-Defamation League shared, ‘The Holocaust was about the [Nazis’] 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,” she added. “I’m sorry for the hurt I have caused.

Goldberg, born Caryn Elaine Johnson, has no Jewish ancestry, but she adopted her stage name to be deliberately Jewish-sounding, in part because she has said she personally identifies with Judaism. She told a London audience in 2016, “I just know I am Jewish. I practice nothing.

I don’t go to temple, but I do remember the holidays.” In 2016, she designed a Hanukkah sweater for Lord & Taylor.

Jerusalem Post Staff contributed to this article.

 

View original The Jerusalem Post publication at:
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-695125

 

I remember the days when Black Americans & Jewish Americans supported one another. But now on the East coast, Blacks ‘play’ this awful game to see if they can knock an orthodox Jew unconscious with just a single blow to the face.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/knockout-game-suspect-charged-hate-crime/story?id=20992590

This ‘game’ has not only spread to the West coast, there are already examples in England.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9912965/VIDEO-Orthodox-Jewish-man-punched-face-passer-racist-attack.html

 

What the hell happened?

Anyway, this is a ‘MUST READ ‘ by: EVE BARLOW. Just click below.

 

 

I believe this summary I posted on facebook sums it up, from my perspective:

 

 

 

 

 

 

ISRAEL

‘as a light unto the nations’

 

#NoToleranceForAntiSemitism

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