Whoopi Goldberg Apologized. Further Punishment Is Un-Jewish.

When Whoopi Goldberg said on her television program, "The View," that the Nazi genocide of European Jews was not about race, but was actually about man's cruelty to man, she showed a flawed understanding of race and of the Holocaust, and offended just about every Jewish organization and Jewish individual I know. But ABC's decision to suspend her from "The View" for two weeks, after she apologized, is equally troubling. Silencing people for ignorance and a misunderstanding of antisemitism is largely unhelpful and is, at its core, un-Jewish; Jewish tradition emphasizes the acceptance and importance of apology.