'In a new statement sent to Rolling Stone, Goldberg clarified that she was simply trying to “recount” what she had said earlier this year on The View — and not doubling down in her beliefs.'
The Sunday Times
, Goldberg appeared to repeat her past controversial view that the Holocaust “wasn’t originally” about race, immediately garnering backlash from Jewish leaders who quickly denounced the star’s “ignorant” words. “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,’ ” Goldberg said in the Dec. 24 interview, sharing her previous belief that Nazis had targeted Jewish people for “physical attributes” as opposed to racial ones.host responded, “Yes, but that’s the killer, isn’t it? The oppressor is telling you what you are. Why are you believing them? They’re Nazis.
Goldberg added, “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 , I want to be very clear when I say that I always stood with the Jewish people and always will. My support for them has not wavered and never will.”interview was immediately met with backlash online, including from Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, who condemned Goldberg’s comments in a Twitter thread Tuesday.
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