Whoopi Goldberg Suspended From ‘The View’ Due To ‘Wrong & Hurtful’ Holocaust Remarks

NEW YORK -- Whoopi Goldberg returned to “The View” on Monday after a two-week suspension for remarks about the Holocaust, expressing surprise at some people who had reached out to her during her absence.Goldberg had been criticized for comments Jan. 31 on the daytime talk show where she said the Holocaust was not about race, but rather about man's inhumanity to others.

Whoopi Goldberg returned to The View on Monday after a two-week suspension, opening the show by telling viewers, “Yes, I am back.”

Whoopi Goldberg has been absent from The View following a two-week suspension in light of her controversial comments about the Holocaust.MORE: The View announces exciting new additions to show - detailsThe TV star has been keeping a low profile on social media ever since, but her co-stars have been there to publicly show their support for their friend and colleague.Sarah Haines took to Instagram on Friday to share a picture of the pair of them taking a selfie together on set.VIDEO: Whoopi Goldberg makes controversial comments about the HolocaustThe happy photo was captioned: "This just popped up and warmed my heart. That's my Whoops!!!"MORE: Whoopi Goldberg's replacement on The View revealed following suspension over Holocaust commentsMORE: Sharon Osbourne breaks silence as Whoopi Goldberg is suspended from The ViewSarah later took to the comments section to defend her friend from the messages that were being written alongside the post.

Sara Haines slammed fans who found Whoopi Goldberg’s two-week suspension from The View for her harmful comments about the Holocaust wasn’t enough.

Sara Haines is standing behind Whoopi Goldberg.

Bill Maher weighed in on ABC News’ suspension of Whoopi Goldberg from “The View” following controversial comments she made about the Holocaust.

The controversy surrounding Whoopi Goldberg and her unfortunate comments earlier this week on The View shows no signs of abating.

Following Whoopi Goldberg‘s suspension from The View in the aftermath of her remarks about the Holocaust during Monday’s episode, it sounds as though there is still plenty of tension at the daytime TV giant.

NEW YORK -- With Tara Setmayer, a former GOP communications director on Capitol Hill, sitting in Wednesday as guest co-host for a second day this week, Whoopi Goldberg's colleagues on “The View” had virtually nothing to say about her two-week suspension for her comments on Jews and the Holocaust.At the top of the ABC talk show, co-host Joy Behar noted Goldberg's absence and said simply, with a tiny head tilt, “OK,” before moving on to other topics. The show went on with four co-hosts.Goldberg's suspension was announced by ABC News President Kim Godwin on Tuesday, the day after Goldberg said during a discussion of a Tennessee school board's banning of the book “Maus” that the Holocaust was “not about race ...

The hosts of “The View” are moving on to more pressing topics.

Maybe some topics are just too hot.

Whoopi Goldberg will not be on The View for two weeks starting Wednesday, February 2. The suspension follows her controversial remarks about the Holocaust and race on the Monday, January 31 episode.

Sister Act star Whoopi Goldberg has been suspended from The View for two weeks over her 'dangerous' Holocaust comments.

Fellow celebrities are sounding off on the situation unfolding at ABC on "The View" after Whoopi Goldberg was suspended for comments she made about the Holocaust.  On Tuesday, ABC News president Kim Godwin announced that, despite Goldberg apologizing for her comments publicly on Twitter, during an appearance on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" and Tuesday's "The View," the network had made the decision to suspend her for two weeks. Godwin noted the move is in an effort to give her "time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments."  Goldberg went viral on Monday when she argued that the Holocaust "isn't about race," stunning her colleagues at the table.  The actress and host took to Twitter to issue a statement of apology shortly after her comments caught backlash online.

The View off-air for two weeks after her “wrong and hurtful comments”, despite the actor having apologised.According to the BBC, ABC News president Kim Godwin told staff on Tuesday night (February 1): “Effective immediately, I am suspending Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks for her wrong and hurtful comments.Goldberg had said she believed the Holocaust “isn’t about race”, instead “about man’s inhumanity to man” in a discussion about the Pulitzer-winning Holocaust novel Maus, which has been banned by a school board in Tennessee.She had said: “Let’s be truthful, the Holocaust isn’t about race, it’s not. It’s about man’s inhumanity to man, that’s what it’s about.

Whoopi Goldberg has been slammed for claiming that the Holocaust 'was not about race ' because it involved 'two groups of white people'.

ABC has suspended Whoopi Goldberg from talkshow The View for two weeks over her "wrong and hurtful" Holocaust comments.The 66 year old Ghost actress said that the horrific genocide of European Jewish people during World War II was "not about race". Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered six million Jews – around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. While she's since apologised for the remarks, ABC News president Kim Godwin has decided to ban her from The View for the next two weeks.

Whoopi Goldberg has been suspended from her role as presenter of US talk show The View for two weeks following her “wrong and hurtful comments” about the Holocaust.

J. Kim Murphy Whoopi Goldberg has been suspended from “The View” for two weeks after facing wide criticism for her remarks that the Holocaust was “not about race.”Goldberg’s suspension was announced in a statement released by ABC News public relations on Tuesday night.“Effective immediately, I am suspending Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks for her wrong and hurtful comments,” reads a statement attributed to Kim Godwin, president at ABC News.