Whoopi Goldberg Criticized By Anti-Defamation League for ‘Holocaust Distortion’ on ‘The View’

Whoopi Goldberg is dealing with criticism from the Anti-Defamation League, the U.S. Holocaust Museum and different Jewish organizations for her remarks on the newest episode of “The View,” during which she acknowledged that the Holocaust was “not about race.”

Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, responded to “The View” co-hosts feedback on Twitter, calling her remarks “harmful.”

“The Holocaust was in regards to the Nazi’s systemic annihilation of the Jewish folks — who they deemed to be an inferior race,” wrote Greenblatt. “They dehumanized them and used their racist propaganda to justify slaughtering 6 million Jews. Holocaust distortion is harmful.”

No @WhoopiGoldberg, the #Holocaust was in regards to the Nazi’s systematic annihilation of the Jewish folks – who they deemed to be an inferior race. They dehumanized them and used this racist propaganda to justify slaughtering 6 million Jews. Holocaust distortion is harmful. #ENOUGH https://t.co/koS1kuspqV

— Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) January 31, 2022

Goldberg’s feedback got here throughout a dialogue on this system concerning a Tennessee college board’s ban of “Maus,” a nonfiction graphic novel about cartoonist Artwork Spiegelman’s father’s expertise surviving the Holocaust.

“Let’s be truthful about it as a result of [the] Holocaust isn’t about race,” Goldberg stated on Monday’s episode. “It’s not about race. It’s about man’s inhumanity to man… These are two white teams of individuals. The minute you flip it into race it goes down this alley. Let’s discuss it for what it’s. It’s [about] how folks deal with one another. It doesn’t matter when you’re Black or white, Jews — it’s one another.”

Goldberg’s feedback sparked speedy, sweeping criticism from Jewish organizations, together with the U.S. Holocaust Museum and StopAntisemitism.org.

“Six million of us have been gassed, starved and massacred as a result of we have been deemed an inferior race by the Nazis,” StopAntisemitism.org wrote on Twitter. “How dare you decrease our trauma and struggling!”

Though the Holocaust Museum didn’t cite Goldberg by title, the group shared an assertion that “racism was central to Nazi ideology” on Monday afternoon.

Goldberg’s remarks have additionally drawn criticism from Jewish figures in leisure. Michael Rapaport shared a video of himself during which he calls out “The View” co-host.

“It is advisable to apologize. It is advisable to clarify your self,” Rapaport acknowledged.

Selection has reached out to “The View” for remark.