Whoopi Goldberg's Holocaust remarks need to be a 'teaching moment' for 'The View,' ABC: rabbi says

Whoopi Goldberg's suspension from "The View" following her controversial remarks about the Holocaust welcomes an “important” opportunity for ABC to take accountability and demonstrate a “national teaching moment,” Rabbi Abraham Cooper of Los Angeles' Simon Wiesenthal Center says.

"Whoopi Goldberg knows our center. She knows Rabbi Marvin Hier, our CEO and founder," Rabbi Cooper said. "We're not dealing with someone here who spoke in order to hurt anyone in our community. But what she said obviously is extremely confusing to people and in many ways hurtful."

"Whoopi Goldberg has been held accountable for her speech. That's fine. Now, ABC puts ‘The View’ on air, so ABC also has to take some responsibilities as the platform that delivered that information."