Whoopi Goldberg’s ‘deeply offensive’ Holocaust comments draw harsh reaction from Anti-Defamation League
Posted on AllSides December 27th, 2022
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The Anti-Defamation League is calling out Whoopi Goldberg for her "deeply offensive" comments about whether the Holocaust, which involved the murder of 6 million Jewish people, was racially motivated.
In a new interview with The Sunday Times of London, shared during Hanukkah, Goldberg suggested Jews are divided about whether they are a race, religion or both.
"My best friend said, ‘Not for nothing is there no box on the census for the Jewish race. So that leads me to believe that we’re probably not a race,’ " she recalled.
ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt tells USA TODAY in a statement,...
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