Whoopi Goldberg says she never intended for her recent interview comments about Jewish identity and the Holocaust – which were criticized by Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt – out. acting like she’s “doubling down” on previous “hurtful” comments that led her to temporarily suspend her role as moderator on ABC’s View mode.
In a statement sent next Tuesday hollywood reporterGoldberg noted that her recent comments, made while working in London, was an attempt to “communicate to the reporter what I said and why and try to recount that time.” However, she said, “I never intended to act like I was doubling down on hurtful comments,” especially after “talking to and listening to people like rabbis and old and new friends consider.”
“I’m still learning a lot and believe me, I’ve heard everything people tell me. I believe the Holocaust was about race, and now I still regret that I upset, hurt, and angry people. Once again, I sincerely apologize, especially to everyone who thought this was a fresh change of topic. I promise not, she added. “In this time of growing anti-Semitism, I want to make it clear that I am always on the side of the Jews and always will be. My support for them has not wavered and will never waver.”
Goldberg’s statement follows Greenblatt’s own response earlier on Tuesday calling for View The owner apologizes. ADL CEO said interview remarks by actor and TV presenter, recently published Sunday Times profile, was “deeply offended and extremely stupid” in one Twitter parcel.
“Additionally, Whoopi’s comments reveal a complete lack of awareness of the multi-ethnic, multi-racial structure of the Jewish community,” he wrote. “She needs to apologize immediately and really commit to educating herself about the true nature of #antisemitism.”
In his social media post, Greenblatt said that when Goldberg “made similar remarks earlier this year, we explained how inherently racist the Nazi regime was.”
The extended interview with the UK store published on Saturday mainly focuses on creating until, the film follows the journey of Emmett Till’s mother, Mamie, in the struggle for justice following the death of her son. But Goldberg also talks about her experiences as a Black woman in Hollywood, canceling the culture and making remarks that seem to suggest a fundamental misunderstanding of what it means to be a black woman. a transgender woman and a transgender man.
When talk about until, Goldberg compared the process and experience to the process of “Otto Frank publishing his daughter Anne’s diary,” according to Sunday Timesand also compared to the end Playing piano on the roofwritten as a musical by Joseph Stein and based on the Tevye stories by Sholem Aleichem (born Solomon J. Rabinowitz).
That’s when Goldberg and reporter Janice Turner started discussing View the presenter repeated the previous feelings shared on the talk show and then continued Late Program With Stephen Colbert in early 2022 on the origins of the Holocaust and whether Jews can be considered one race. “My best friend said, ‘It’s not without reason that there aren’t boxes in the census about Jewish race. So that leads me to believe that maybe we’re not one race,'” Goldberg said.
She went on to argue that the Holocaust was “originally not” about Jews, telling the outlet that the Nazis initially targeted people who were “considered to be mentally impaired”. When Turner pushed back, including noting that the Nazis “considered the Jews as one race” and “measured the heads and noses of the Jews to ‘prove’ they were a distinct race,” Goldberg replied. : “Yes, but that’s the killer, isn’t it? The oppressor is telling you who you are. Why do you believe them? They are Nazis. Why believe what they’re saying?”
“They do the same to the Negroes,” she added. “But that doesn’t change the fact that you can’t talk to a Jew on the street. You can find me. You cannot find them. That’s the point I made. But you might think I took a big pile of stinky old trash on the table, leaving it naked.
In early February, Goldberg apologized for her previous comments that the Holocaust was “not about race” but merely “the inhumanity of man to man” — and described the global Jewish community is white — in a segment starring Greenblatt on View mode. “Yesterday on the show, I was wrong,” Goldberg said at the time. “[The Holocaust] was really about race, because Hitler and the Nazis considered the Jews to be an inferior race. Now, words matter, and mine is no exception. I’m sorry about my comments and I’m here to correct them. I also stand with the Jews.”
