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Wed Feb 2, 2022, 02:45 PM Feb 2022

(Jewish Group) ABC suspends 'The View' co-host Whoopi Goldberg over Holocaust comments that ignite..

ABC suspends ‘The View’ co-host Whoopi Goldberg over Holocaust comments that ignited a firestorm

ABC has suspended Whoopi Goldberg from her role as a co-host of a morning TV talk show for two weeks amid criticism of Goldberg’s characterization of the Holocaust.

Goldberg will take two weeks off from the show, ABC News President Kim Godwin announced in a statement Tuesday evening, hours after a leading Jewish organization that had been among Goldberg’s critics said it had welcomed her apology for saying the Holocaust “isn’t about race.”

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“It distracts from real danger — like Nazis on our streets, swastikas all over the place, and the normalization of antisemitic conspiracies by people like Tucker Carlson who face zero consequence,” tweeted Amy Spitalnick, executive director of Integrity First for America, which sued the organizers of the deadly 2017 white -supremacist march in Charlottesville, Virginia. (She was referring to a special that Carlson, the Fox News host whom the ADL has called to have fired over his embrace of a white supremacist conspiracy theory, is airing this week condemning George Soros, the Jewish philanthropist who is a leading target of antisemitism.)

Joel Pollak, a prominent conservative pundit, tweeted a similar sentiment. “There is actual, dangerous antisemitism in the world, and while Whoopi Goldberg would never extend me the same benefit of the doubt, this whole ordeal is a mockery of what facing up to antisemitism means,” he wrote. “It’s virtue signaling of the worst kind because it obscures the problem.”

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Hmmm...Jews on the left AND the right seem to be clamoring for EDUCATION, not "punishment". Shhh...don't let others know, it may distract from their blaming us for this "outrage".
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