Whoopi Goldberg takes heat for repeating ‘incendiary’ Holocaust remarks: 'She learned nothing' - Fox News

Jewish activists and assemblage members demanded Whoopi Goldberg look termination from "The View" implicit the play aft she doubled down connected past Holocaust remarks, prompting a fierce outcry connected societal media.

Ten months aft getting suspended from ABC’s daytime speech amusement for insisting that the Holocaust was "not astir race," Goldberg, successful a caller interrogation with U.K. insubstantial The Sunday Times, showed small remorse for her past rhetoric, arguing again that the estimated 6 cardinal Jews who were systematically killed successful the Holocaust were not targeted based connected their race.

"The View" co-host besides claimed that the Nazis targeted radical of African descent successful summation to Jews due to the fact that they were physically antithetic and went arsenic acold arsenic to suggest that Jews had an easier clip blending successful with White radical and hiding from the Nazis than Black radical did astatine the clip of the Holocaust.

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"The View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg doubled down connected her content that the Holocaust was "not astir race." (Screenshot/ABC/TheView)

"It doesn’t alteration the information that you could not archer a Jew connected a street. You could find me. You couldn’t find them. That was the constituent I was making," she said. "But you would person thought that I’d taken a large aged stinky dump connected the table, butt naked."

The Times of Israel called Goldberg's comments "incendiary" successful an nonfiction Sunday, pointing retired that portion her existent sanction is Caryn Elaine Johnson, the speech amusement co-host has nary Jewish ancestry and adopted a much "Jewish-sounding" signifier name.

Goldberg's Holocaust comments successful February, which led to her two-week suspension from the web and a consequent apology, stunned galore successful the Jewish community. At the time, religion leaders, activists and online critics encouraged her to amended herself connected the topic, but mostly supported her instrumentality to the show. 

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Now, with the deficiency of remorse evident successful her latest interview, immoderate are calling for her termination implicit her past of historically ignorant statements.

"So, aft expected ‘apology’ earlier successful year, Whoopi Goldberg doubles down connected her vile remarks that the Holocaust was not astir race, and alternatively ‘white connected white’ violence. Someone get this ignorant fool disconnected the air!," International Legal Forum CEO Arsen Ostrovsky wrote.

"Once again Whoopi insists connected dismissing the Holocaust arsenic a specified white-on-white crime, alternatively than the industrial-scale execution of Europe's Jews. #Antisemitism — history's oldest and astir toxic hatred — is surging, but Whoopi is determined to trivialize it," Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby responded.

Lucy Lipiner, a Holocaust subsister and writer of "Long Journey Home: A Young Girl's Memoir of Surviving the Holocaust," scolded Goldberg for continuously utilizing the genocidal horrors she witnessed arsenic a "punching bag."

"Whoopi Goldberg continues to usage the Holocaust arsenic her punching bag. We told her that her comments harm america and she simply doesn’t care," Lipiner, who was outspoken against Goldberg's past Holocaust rhetoric, said.

"I survived the Nazis and the Holocaust," she added, "so I’ll beryllium damned if I fto a drama has-been, peddling a fake Jewish sanction get the amended of me."

Newsweek contributor Joel Petlin responded, "Accepting apologies from immoderate radical who spew Antisemitic garbage is the triumph of anticipation implicit experience. We cognize that the Antisemitism volition apt reoccur, but we inactive anticipation that they learned thing on the way. Alas Whoopi conscionable learned she could get distant with it. Again."

"I privation actors would instrumentality to acting and footballers would instrumentality to football. Every clip radical similar Whoopi Goldberg oregon Gary Lineker unfastened their mouths astir things they don't recognize they turn progressively small..," investigative writer David Collier agreed.

Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y. besides called retired the "View" co-host.

"Antisemitism is anti-Jewish racism. Period. Claiming the Holocaust had thing to bash with racism is humanities revisionism astatine its worst," helium wrote.

In her write-up of the interview, the Times' Janice Turner revealed that, "Even present [Goldberg] does not recognize wherefore her remarks offended. She insists Jewish radical themselves are divided astir whether they are a contention oregon a religion."

The interrogation comes little than a twelvemonth aft Goldberg issued a watered-down apology for the aforesaid remark aft making radical "very angry." She did somewhat support her remarks astatine the time, though, saying arsenic a Black pistillate she viewed contention arsenic thing she could see.

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Whoopi Goldberg attends the premiere of "Till" during the 60th New York Film Festival astatine Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center connected Oct. 1, 2022 successful New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for FLC)

Responding to Goldberg successful a Fox News Digital interrogation earlier this year, Lipiner said of her position, "She was mistaken. This was precise overmuch against my race, my Jewishness. It wasn’t White radical against White radical arsenic she says. We were White, but we were being exterminated due to the fact that we were Jewish. Men, women, children, infants, killed due to the fact that we were Jewish."

"I presume she’s an intelligent person," Lipiner added. "[But] I don’t recognize however she could beryllium truthful unaware of the Holocaust, however it happened and that it happened to us, the Jewish people." 

Fox News Digital has reached retired to an ABC spokesperson for remark and volition update if fixed a response.

Fox News' Gabriel Hays contributed to this report.