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30 JEWISH WORLD • FEBRUARY 11 - 17, 2022 to highlight that he was a proud American Jew. Back when Jews were seen as a marginalized minority, the ap- pointment to the Supreme Court of such august jurists as Louis Brandeis, Felix Frankfurter, Benja- min Cardozo and Arthur Goldberg were openly regarded as symbols of ethnic advancement and Amer- profundity than any old Hollywood actress with knee-jerk politics, she would either have been better in- formed or capable of keeping her trap shut. Unfortunately, this darling of the Left didn’t merely open her mouth wide at the wrong moment; she shoved her foot in it for all to wit- ness. Attempting to apologize in the ensuing storm, Goldberg made things even worse. Saying she had now learned that “Hitler and the Nazis considered Jews to be an in- ferior race,” she then told Stephen Colbert on his late-night talk show that the Nazis had lied and actual- ly had issues not with race but with ethnicity, which caused further out- rage and prompted another apology. T his furor should not be dis- missed as merely a reaction to an ignorant celebrity making stupid and offensive remarks. For Goldberg didn’t arrive at her views in a vacu- um. They reflect a twisted belief held by an alarming number of people, but which are generally glossed over because those people are Black. Racism, according to this dog- ma, is defined not as bigotry by one group against another but as bigotry with power. Therefore, black peo- ple can never be racists. And be- cause this viewpoint often includes the conviction that the Jews control white society, they are seen as pow- erful and therefore white. Under this pernicious theory, Jews can never be victims of race hatred - not even in Europe during World War II, when Nazi Germany came close to successfully elimi- nating every Jew under its control. Goldberg’s apology turned out to be insufficient for her bosses at the network. “Effective immediately, I am sus- pending Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks for her wrong and hurtful comments,” ABC News president Kim Godwin said in a statement. “While Whoopi has apologized, I’ve asked her to take time and re- flect and learn about the impact of her comments. The entire ABC News organization stands in soli- darity with our Jewish colleagues, friends, family and communities.” Goldberg was incensed. Since that announcement, she has threat- ened to resign. That’s her choice, of course, just as it’s ABC’s aim not to lose view- ers and advertising revenue that en- able it to pay Goldberg millions of dollars per year. Angry calls for her to be fired and the show to be can- celed are thus entirely unnecessary. Political conservatives who op- pose the “cancel culture” instigat- ed by the Left ought to keep this in mind. The best way to punish Goldberg – whose made-up name is as false as her premises – is sim- ply to stop watching “The View.” The rest will take care of itself. Ruthie Blum is a former senior editor at the ‘Jerusalem Post’ who is currently a political affairs col- umnist for ‘Israel Hayom.’ Whoopi continued from page 4 Art Spiegelman’s two-part graphic novel about the Holocaust, ‘Maus,’ the banning of which by a Tenn. school board led to Goldberg’s comments. In January 1939, Hitler told the Reichstag that if Jewish bankers plunged the world into war, the result “will be the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe.” Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer, with President Biden, delivers remarks announcing his retirement at the White House on Jan. 27. A man has his nose measured by a Nazi doctor in an Aryan “race determination test” to determine whether he should be classified as a Jew. ican pluralism. Justice Breyer’s retirement was not referenced as a Jewish mile- stone at all. Why? Perhaps because Jewish assimi- lation has been accomplished with such perfection that whiteness is now the primary identifying char- acteristic of being Jewish-American — not ethnicity, or historical perse- cution, the ghettos of Europe, the Pale of Settlement and the once im- poverished Lower East Side, or even academic and professional success. Jews today are far more likely to be blamed for Israeli policies than ap- plauded for their resurrection after a genocide less than 80 years ago. In today’s political culture with its intersectional sleight of hand, Breyer’s identity was, bizarrely, evidence of a Supreme Court lack- ing diversity — a white man in a black robe. Indeed, a little over a year ago, few remarked that Jews comprised one-third of the High Court (Breyer joined by Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Elena Kagan) — yes, white skinned, but adding diversity to the Court and ruling, ideologically, as a liberal bloc. Now there is just one. And, still, no one takes notice. Thane Rosenbaum is a novelist, essayist, law professor and Dis- tinguished University Professor at Touro College, where he directs the Forum on Life, Culture & Soci- ety. His latest work, “Saving Free Speech … from Itself,” was just published. Passing continued from page 10 One event that coincided with IHRD and went wholly unmentioned was the retirement of Justice Stephen Breyer, an American-Jew. Arabs commit identity theft and then expropriate the term “Palestin- ians” for themselves. Prior to 1964, there is not a single diplomatic pa- per, U.N. resolution, newspaper headline, piece of known corre- spondence, photographic image or any other documentation that refers toArabs as anything other than “Ar- abs,” although references to Jews as Palestinians is abundant. So, if on Feb. 1, editors collude with Amnesty International and run headlines in synchrony com- plaining of imaginary apartheid in a land where Arabs and Jews earn equal wages, and where Arabs can achieve in society in a way that they cannot anywhere else in the Middle East — including the Palestinian Authority, for that matter — and wield political power disproportion- ate to their numbers, then it will be a triumph for the Orwellian nature of media narratives in our times. For those who can get sufficiently beyond the fake narrative to open a book or check the facts, they’ll see that the headlines will be just anoth- er attempt not only to display a shiny object during these tense times but ac- tually to create one where none exists. Human rights writer Edwin Black is the New York Times best- selling and award-winning author of IBM and the Holocaust and has long studied both the Mideast and the history of apartheid regimes. Amnesty continued from page 13 When Israel reclaimed the stolen land after the Six-Day War in 1967, those recent Arab tenants stayed on, paying a pittance of rent until it became more profitable to pretend that they owned the tracts — caus- ing protracted legal action and judg- ments that they ignored, subsequent- ly leading to eviction. This becomes “apartheid” in the hands of Amnesty — but in reality, it’s actually a gar- den variety landlord-tenant case. L ikewise, Amnesty does not want anyone to remember that approx- imately half of Israel’s population is not descended from the likes of far-off Miami and Brooklyn, but from such regional climes asMorocco andBagh- dad, which expelled some 850,000 Jews, stateless and penniless, largely into Israel, in the biggest and most public ethnic cleansing in history. Nor does anyone mention that until 1964, Jewish Zionists in their interna- tionally recognized homeland were globally referred to as “Palestinians,” and that the Arabs were referred to as “Arabs.” Then, that year, the KGB and the Arab League created the Pal- estine Liberation Organization. Those two sponsors helped the