Whoopi Goldberg Faces Backlash for Her Comments About the Holocaust

Whoopi Goldberg is facing major backlash for the comments she made about the Holocaust.

During the Monday (January 31) episode of The View, Whoopi made the comments while talking about a Tennessee school district deciding to pull the graphic novel “Maus” from bookshelves due to “inappropriate language.”

Click inside to see the comments Whoopi Goldberg made and the reaction they got…

Whoopi claimed that the Holocaust was not about race.

“Let’s be truthful about it because Holocaust isn’t about race,” she said. “It’s not about race. It’s not about race. It’s about man’s inhumanity to man.”

Ana Navarro then said, “But it’s about white supremacists going after after Jews.”

Whoopi responded, “But these are two white groups of people! The minute you turn it into race it goes down this alley. Let’s talk about it for what it is. It’s how people treat each other. It doesn’t matter if you’re Black or white, Jews, it’s each other.”

David Harris, the CEO of the American Jewish Committee, tweeted, “Whoopi Goldberg absurdly claims the #Holocaust ‘isn’t about race.’ Nazi Germany considered all Jews a ‘subhuman race.’ That’s why they wanted to exterminate the entire Jewish people, including my family, & almost succeeded. Please rethink & apologize.”

Israeli writer Hen Mazzig tweeted, “Being Jewish means watching white nationalists call for your death because you’re ‘not white’ while ladies on national TV say the Holocaust was ‘white people killing white people…y’all go fight amongst yourselves.’”