The chairman of Yad Vashem on Tuesday invited talk-show host Whoopi Goldberg to visit the Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem to learn more about the causes of the Shoah. The invitation came on the heels of a controversy that erupted on Monday after Goldberg said on ABC‘s “The View” that “the Holocaust isn’t about race.”
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The segment during which Goldberg make the remarks focused on the Tennessee school board’s decision to ban Maus, a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust. “Let’s be truthful about it … the Holocaust isn’t about race, ” said Goldberg. “It’s about man’s inhumanity to man. That’s what it’s about.”
Goldberg later apologized, saying, “As [ADL CEO and national director] Jonathan Greenblatt shared, ‘The Holocaust was about the Nazis’ systematic annihilation of the Jewish people—who they deemed to be an inferior race.’ I stand corrected.”
Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan welcomed the apology but said that Goldberg’s initial statement was indicative of a wider problem.
“The statement by Whoopi Goldberg on the ABC talk show ‘The View,’ only days after the world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day, is an unfortunate indication of a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of the Holocaust and anti-Semitism,” said Dayan in a statement.
“We must not mince words; people need to know what led to the Holocaust, the unprecedented murderous drive to annihilate the entire Jewish people their religion, culture and values by the Nazis and their collaborators, primarily because of the unfounded belief that Jews were their foremost and extremely dangerous racial enemy,” he continued.
While Goldberg’s apology and clarification were “important,” said Dayan. “I extend a personal invitation to her to learn more about the causes, events and aftermath of the Holocaust here at Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem.”
Her biggest problem with her views on this is that she limits questions of race to only black vs white. That’s why she said it was man’s inhumanity to man. That is true. But she’s astonishingly? somehow missing that racism and bigotry can also exist between people of the same skin color.
The truth, though, is that Jews are a religion, not a race. The Nazis, however, were definitely racist.
But what exactly did she mean by that? Yes, to the Nazis, we are a race. But to Whoopie—– What did she mean?
The holocaust wasn’t about race, it was about the Jews. Jews are not a race – there are black Jews, brown Jews, Chinese Jews, etc.The reason holocaust memorials exist is not only to show Jew hatred but to show how man can become inhumane.
Why is this news to begin with? That whole show should be canned. She mouths off on this ridiculous show and suddenly we take notice. If she were to go to the Museum, she’ll still ask for reparations for her people. If you are “brought up” or brainwashed to think this way, there is very little hope. I would consider joy Behar a bigger shanda as she is supposedly Jewish and kept quiet because she grovels to blacks.
Why does anyone care what this Blimp has to say?
“Although this Holocaust museum isn’t about race,” Goldberg said, according to several fictitious news outlets. “It is nevertheless about man’s inhumanity to man, which is why I’m going to visit this museum – to learn more about man’s inhumanity to man. Hopefully, after I finish my visit to the museum, I’ll return to host the View, where I will move on to discuss other matters, like issues of racism.”