In a December interview with the Sunday Times of London (via Deadline) , Whoopi Goldberg said, “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.”” When the interviewer pointed out that the “Nazis saw Jews as a race,” Goldberg stated that the Nazis were oppressors who told the Jewish people who they were. “Why believe what they’re saying? It wasn’t originally [about race]. Remember who they were killing first. They were not killing racial; they were killing physical,” she added.
After much public backlash, Goldberg claimed she was not “doubling down” on what she had said in February. She said that she was still learning about the Holocaust. “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,” Goldberg wrote.
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The former CEO of the American Jewish Committee, David Harris, wrote in a tweet to Goldberg, “Take a moment to read this quote from Hitler. He says: ‘Firstly, Jews are definitely a race…’ In fact, he uses the word “race” 3x in just a few sentences. Stop claiming the Holocaust wasn’t about race. It was all about race. Please get a grip & move on.”
