Jonathan Greenblatt, head of the Anti-Defamation League, has described Whoopi Goldberg’s most recent comments about the Holocaust as “deeply offensive and incredibly ignorant”.
“Whoopi Goldberg’s comments about the Holocaust and race are extremely offensive and incredibly disappointing, especially considering that this is not the first time she has made comments like this,” Greenblatt said in a statement.
Greenblatt said, “At a moment when anti-Semitism is on the rise across America, he should realize that ignorant statements like this can have real consequences.”
This statement came in response to Goldberg’s recent interview with the Sunday Times which was published on Saturdaywhere Goldberg stated that the Holocaust was not “originally” based on race.
“Remember who they were killing first. They weren’t racial killings; they were physical killings. They were killing people they thought were mentally defective. And then they made that decision,” Goldberg he said.
Goldberg added on Twitter: “The Nazis set out to exterminate the Jewish people, whom they considered inferior to the mythical ‘Aryan master race’. They used this to justify their anti-Semitic ‘race laws’ and the systematic slaughter of millions of people.” For this, pseudoscientific theories of race were used.
This is the second time the “The View” host has come under fire for inaccurate and offensive comments about the Holocaust. He was suspended for two weeks earlier this year because of his previous comments.
