ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt Tells ‘The View’ to Hire Jewish Host Following Whoopi’s Holocaust Remarks

A day later Opinion Whoopi Goldberg caused a backlash for claiming the Holocaust had nothing to do with raceAnti-Defamation League chief executive Jonathan Greenblatt said the show would fill a co-host with a Jew.

“So yesterday on our show, I missed, and I tweeted about it last night, but I want you to hear it from me directly,” Goldberg noted at the beginning of the chapter. presented on Tuesday. “I said something that I feel a responsibility to not overlook because my words have offended so many people that it was never my intention. And I understand why now, and for that, I am extremely, deeply grateful that the information I received was really helpful and helped me make sense of a number of different things. ”

Note that her comment revolved around a discussion of the Tennessee school board’s ban decision Mausa graphic novel about the Holocaust, Goldberg says she now knows that the Holocaust “was really about race because Hitler and the Nazis saw the Jews as an inferior race.”

“I stand corrected and I stand with the Jews,” she added before introducing Greenblatt to the program.

“Well, Whoopi, there is no doubt that the Holocaust is about race,” he declared. “That is how the Nazis saw it when they caused the systematic extermination of Jews across continents, across countries with deliberate and ruthless cruelty. And indeed the first page of Mausthe book that you talked about yesterday, Whoopi, it opens with a quote from Hitler, and it literally says, the Jews are certainly a race, but they are not human. “

He continued: “You see, Hitler’s ideology, it was predicated on the idea that the Aryans, the Germans were a quote, the ‘master race’, and the Jews were a lower race. ordinary. It was racist against anti-Semitism. “

He said that while this “may not quite fit or feel different from the way we think about race in America,” as it often revolves around people of color, Jews “have been marginalized.” marginalized” and persecuted throughout history.

“They were killed largely because people felt they were not just one religion, but actually another race,” Greenblatt added. “And your foundation, Whoopi, is very important to use it now to educate people to realize that anti-Semitism remains a clear and present danger.”

Later in the interview, he also called for the show to consider someone Jewish when it finally decided to hire a long-term replacement for former co-host Meghan McCain. (See only two Jewish hosts in the show’s 25-year history — and none since 2016)

Since McCain passed away last yearseats were filled by a rotating group of conservative hosts such as Condoleezza Rice, Mary Katharine Ham, and Gretchen Carlson on the show. continue to audition for a full-time fifth panelist.

“I know you guys believe in representation, and I know you work to bring out all points of view,” he said. “Think about having a Jewish host on this show who can bring up issues of anti-Semitism who can bring these representational issues to the fore. See everyday.”

Freelance co-host Joy Behar responded to Greenblatt’s call for a Jewish presenter by reminding viewers that she was in fact not Jewish. “I guess I don’t count because everyone thinks I’m Jewish, but I’m not,” she quips. “So maybe you’re right, Jonathan.”

Goldberg caused widespread outrage on Monday when she repeatedly asserted that the Holocaust was “not related to race”. Even as some of her co-hosts pointed out that the Holocaust’s goal was “white supremacy” and that the Nazis viewed the Jews as an inferior race, See moderator will not back down from her assertion.

“It’s about the inhumanity of man to man,” she declared, adding that the Holocaust involved “two groups of white people.”

Goldberg’s review prompted swift condemnation from the ADL and other Jewish groupswith Greenblatt specifically pointing out the Oscar-winning actress’ “dangerous” misrepresentation of the history of the Massacre.

“[T]he #Holocaust is about the systematic extermination of the Jews by Nazi Germany — people they considered an inferior race. ” he tweeted on Monday. “They have dehumanized and used this racist propaganda to justify the slaughter of 6 million Jews.”

Goldberg will finally released a statement on Monday night, apologizing “for the hurt” she caused with her remarks. “On today’s show, I said the Holocaust ‘is not about race, it’s about man’s inhumanity to man.’ I should say it is about both,” Goldberg wrote, adding: “Jews around the world have always had my back, and that will never give up. ”

In a Monday night appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbertrecorded before she issued her apology, Goldberg essentially doubled down on her remarks while trying to clarify them.

“I feel, being Black, when we talk about race, it’s a very different thing for me, so I say I feel the Holocaust is not about race,” she stated. “And people were very, very, very angry and are still angry. I get all the mail from everyone and get very angry, because everyone feels so different. “

She added: “But I think it was a standout discussion because, as a Black person, I think race is something that I can see. So I meet you and I know what race you are, and the discussion is about how I feel about that. People were very angry and they said, ‘No, no, we are one race,’ and I understand. I understand. I felt different. “

Saying she doesn’t “want to fake an apology,” Goldberg lamented to Colbert that she was “very upset that people misunderstood what I was saying” and is now accusing her of anti-Semitism and denial. receive the Holocaust.

“I think we’re discussing race, which everyone, I think, is dealing with,” she concluded.