Whoopi Goldberg’s Biggest Controversies Over the Years: Holocaust Comments, Defending Bill Cosby and More

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Whoopi Goldberg has made headlines for her controversial remarks just as often as she has for her storied, EGOT-winning career.The View cohost found herself in hot water throughout 2022 after making antisemitic comments about the Holocaust that led to a two-week suspension from the long-running ABC talk show in February.The Ghost star, who previously shared that she identified as Jewish, faced extreme backlash after alleging on the January 31, 2022, episode of The View that the Holocaust — which killed more than 6 million Jewish people — is “not about race.

It’s about man’s inhumanity to man.”“Effective immediately, I am suspending Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks for her wrong and hurtful comments,” ABC News president Kim Godwin said in a statement on February 1, 2022. “While Whoopi has apologized, I’ve asked her to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments.

The entire ABC News organization stands in solidarity with our Jewish colleagues, friends, family and communities.”Though Goldberg apologized for her comments at the time, she doubled down on her stance in December 2022.“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 told the Sunday Times. “Remember who they were killing first.