Author Rabbi Shmuley Boteach has discussed actress Whoopi Goldberg’s recent interview in which she double down on comments she made earlier in the year about the Holocaust.
In an interview with the UK’s Sunday Times, Ms Goldberg said, “you couldn’t tell a Jew on the street. You could find me. You couldn’t find them,” and goes on to say the Holocaust “wasn’t originally about race”.
“Whoopi Goldberg, I don’t think is an anti-Semite; I just think she is playing a very strange game as to which people have suffered the most,” Mr Boteach told Sky News host Rita Panahi.
“But it trivialises the murder of six million people.”
Author Rabbi Shmuley Boteach says when people claim they hate Israel but love Jewish people, they are “dyed in the wool liars” and anti-Semites.
He said Jewish people are not hated because of “Israeli aggression”, but rather Israel is hated because of anti-Semitism.
“The reason why people attack Israel is they don’t care about Arab rights and they don’t care about Arab LGBTQ rights – they care about hating Jews,” Rabbi Shmuley told Sky News host Rita Panahi.
“This is the world’s oldest hatred, we see it repeated over and over again.”
Watch the segment with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach on The Rita Panahi Show.