Whoopi Goldberg apologizes for her Holocaust remarks on The View as Anti-Defamation League CEO calls on the show to have a Jewish co-host

The Daily Beast

“So yesterday on our show, I misspoke, and I tweeted about it last night, but I kind of want you to hear it from me directly,” Goldberg said at the top of Tuesday’s show, according to The Daily Beast. “I said something that I feel a responsibility for not leaving unexamined because my words upset so many people which was never my intention. And I understand why now, and for that, I am deeply, deeply grateful because the information I got was really helpful and helped me understand some different things.” Noting that her remarks revolved around a discussion about a Tennessee school board’s decision to ban Maus, a graphic novel about the Holocaust, Goldberg said she now knows that the Holocaust “was indeed about race because Hitler and the Nazis considered Jews to be an inferior race. I stand corrected and I stand with the Jewish people." Goldberg then introduced ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, who told her: “Well, Whoopi, there’s no question that the Holocaust was about race. That’s how the Nazis saw it as they perpetrated the systematic annihilation of the Jewish people across continents, across countries with deliberate and ruthless cruelty. And literally the first page of Maus, the book you were talking about yesterday, Whoopi, it opens with a quote from Hitler, and literally it says, the Jews undoubtedly are a race, but they are not human. You see, Hitler’s ideology, it was predicated on the idea that the Aryans, the Germans were a quote, ‘master race,’ and the Jews were a subhuman race. It was racialized antisemitism.” Later on, Greenblatt urged The View to consider someone Jewish for its vacant seat.