Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum invites US media personality Whoopi Goldberg to a visit in order to learn more about the causes of the Jewish Shoah.
The museum’s director Dani Dayan says Goldberg’s controversial statement Monday that “the Holocaust isn’t about race,” for which she has since apologized, was “an unfortunate indication of a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of the Holocaust & antisemitism.”
Dayan adds: “We must not mince words; people need to know what led to the Holocaust, the unprecedented murderous drive to annihilate the entire Jewish people, their religion, culture and values by the Nazis and their collaborators, primarily because of the unfounded belief that Jews were their foremost and extremely dangerous racial enemy.”
He says Goldberg’s apology was important, but he extends “a personal invitation to her to learn more about the causes, events and aftermath of the Holocaust here at Yad Vashem.”
Actress Whoopi Goldberg speaks during the opening of the “Planet or Plastic?” exhibit, Tuesday, June 4, 2019 at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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