Co-host of “The View” Whoopi Goldberg has been suspended from the show for two weeks, first reported by CNN reporter Oliver Darcy and confirmed by ABC News to Insider.
Goldberg’s suspension comes a day after she said on the ABC talk show that “the Holocaust isn’t about race,” but rather, “man’s inhumanity to man.”
Goldberg issued an apology the same day saying, “I’m sorry for the hurt I have caused.”
“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,” Goldberg also said in her statement.
A representative for Goldberg did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.
“Effective immediately, I am suspending Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks for her wrong and hurtful comments. While Whoopi has apologized, I’ve asked her to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments,” ABC News President Kim Godwin, said per a statement sent to Insider. “The entire ABC News organization stands in solidarity with our Jewish colleagues, friends, family, and communities.”
The DailyBeast reported that multiple unnamed sources said Goldberg’s co-stars Sunny Hostin, Joy Behar, and Ana Navarro were upset by the decision to suspend Goldberg.
Goldberg’s Holocaust comments were made during a discussion between the co-hosts about recent rise in book bans across the country — including a Tennessee school district‘s decision to ban “Maus,” a graphic novel by Art Spiegelman about the Holocaust, in January.
The McMinn County school board argued that the book’s usage of the word “God damn” and an illustration of a nude mouse were “completely unnecessary.”
“If you’re going to do this, let’s be truthful about it because the Holocaust isn’t about race,” Goldberg continued. “No. It’s not about race! It’s about man’s inhumanity to man. That’s what it’s about.”
Goldberg added that the genocide was about “how people treat each other.”
According to a Monday tweet by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, “Racism was central to Nazi ideology. Jews were not defined by religion, but by race. Nazi racist beliefs fueled genocide and mass murder.”
The Nazis sought to purge Jewish people — along with other groups like Roma, people with disabilities, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, Afro-Germans, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, political dissidents — from Germany as they were viewed as inferior to the German “Aryan” race, the museum’s website says. Ultimately six million Jewish people died during the Holocaust.
This report was originally published on Insider.