Israel’s Holocaust museum invites Whoopi Goldberg to visit

Whoopi Goldberg, who was suspended for 2 weeks by ABC after saying that the Holocaust "wasn't about race," was invited to Israel's Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem.
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The chairman of Israel’s nationwide Holocaust museum invited Whoopi Goldberg to go to, saying the now-suspended co-host of ABC’s “The View” has a “elementary misunderstanding of the character of the Holocaust and anti-Semitism.”

Goldberg landed in scorching water this week after saying that the genocide of European Jews by the Nazis “isn’t about race.” Dani Dayan, the chairman of Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, stated it was unlucky that Goldberg’s feedback got here simply days after the world marked Worldwide Holocaust Remembrance Day.

“Whereas her apology and clarification are necessary, I lengthen a private invitation to Ms. Goldberg and different influencers to be taught extra in regards to the causes, occasions and aftermath of the Holocaust right here at Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Middle in Jerusalem,” Dayan stated.

The Put up has reached out to Goldberg’s representatives looking for remark.

Yad Vashem is the Israeli Holocaust memorial to the 6 million European Jews exterminated by the Nazis.

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Throughout Monday’s broadcast, Goldberg, 66, first argued that the Holocaust went past race throughout a dialogue a few Tennessee college district’s determination to ban “Maus,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel a few Holocaust survivor.

“The Holocaust isn’t about race. No, it’s not about race,” she stated repeatedly. “It’s about man’s inhumanity to man.” 

She then repeated the assertion on “The Late Present With Stephen Colbert” that night.

The host walked again the remarks on Twitter later that evening amid widespread outrage.

“As Jonathan Greenblatt from the Anti-Defamation League shared, ‘The Holocaust was in regards to the Nazi’s systematic annihilation of the Jewish folks — who they deemed to be an inferior race.’ I stand corrected,” she wrote.

Regardless of the apology, ABC Information president Kim Godwin handed down a two-week suspension.

“Whereas Whoopi has apologized, I’ve requested her to take time to mirror and be taught in regards to the affect of her feedback,” Godwin tweeted.