Whoopi Goldberg Apologizes Again After Repeating Claims About The Holocaust

Actress and comedian, Whoopi Goldberg, has apologized for recently reiterating her comments that the Holocaust was never "about race." She released a statement apologizing for and clearing up her recent comments and said she was just trying to explain herself. Goldberg also stated that her support for Jewish people has never wavered, and it will never.

She shared her sincere apologies to everyone offended by her recent statements and said she has always stood with Jewish people. Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, has since publicly denounced her recent remarks and called them "disappointing" and "deeply offensive."

Goldberg went viral again for reiterating her January comments on the Holocaust and saying she didn't understand the controversy. She first made the comments during a discussion about the Tennessee school ban on the graphic novel "Maus" by Art Spiegelman. As a result, she was suspended from her co-host position on the ABC talk show for two weeks.

Read on to find out more.

Goldberg has released a statement apologizing and clearing up her recent comments, which were a reiteration of her opinion on the Holocaust. She released the statement to E! News on December 27th.

It read, "Recently, while doing press in London, I was asked about my comments from earlier this year. I tried to convey to the reporter what I had said and why, and attempted to recount that time."

The statement continued, "It was never my intention to appear as if I was doubling down on hurtful comments, especially after talking with and hearing people like rabbis and old and new friends weighing in. I'm still learning a lot and believe me, I heard everything everyone said to me."

Goldberg also stated that she does believe the Holocaust was "about race" and said that her support for Jewish people "has not wavered and it never will." The statement also read, "My sincere apologies again, especially to everyone who thought this was a fresh rehash of the subject. I promise it was not. In this time of rising antisemitism, I want to be very clear when I say that I always stood with the Jewish people and always will."

Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League publicly denounced her recent remarks and called them "disappointing" and "deeply offensive." He spoke to The Wrap on December 27th and said, "In a moment when antisemitic incidents have surged across the US, she should realize that making such ignorant statements can have real consequences."

MEGAGoldberg went viral again on December 26th for reiterating her January comments on the Holocaust. The "Till" star told The Sunday Times that she didn't understand why her earlier statements were so controversial. She also insisted that many Jewish people are split over whether they're a race or religion.

Goldberg said, "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 also questioned why Jewish people believed the Nazi categorization of their people as a race.

When the interviewer gave the example of Nazis measuring facial features to determine whether someone was Jewish or not, Goldberg countered his point. She said, "They did that to Black people too. But it doesn't change the fact that you could not tell a Jew on a street. You could find me. You couldn't find them. That was the point I was making."

Goldberg first made the controversial Holocaust comments during a January 31st discussion about the Tennessee school ban on the graphic novel "Maus" by Art Spiegelman. She said the Holocaust was never about race but rather "about man's inhumanity to man."

Her comments quickly went viral online and generated immense backlash on social media. Shortly after, the "Sister Act" star issued an apology statement, saying she "should have said it was about both."

She wrote per People, "As Jonathan Greenblatt from the Anti-Defamation League shared, 'The Holocaust was about the Nazi's systematic annihilation of the Jewish people—who they deemed to be an inferior race. I stand corrected."

The day after her apology, Goldberg was suspended from her co-host position on the ABC talk show for two weeks. Upon her return, she stated that the show would continue to have those difficult and controversial conversations.