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Are Jews a Race?

Whoopi Goldberg’s Holocaust comments reflect how Jews don’t fit into Western boxes
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Yesterday, celebrated actor and TV host Whoopi Goldberg caused a minor meltdown on ABC’s when she that the Holocaust “isn’t about race.” Later that day, she joined and on these remarks in an uncomfortable exchange, insisting that “the Nazis were white people, and most of the

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