ABC News suspended "The View" host Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks after she said the Holocaust was not about race, the network said Tuesday.
ABC News president Kim Godwin called Goldberg's comments "inaccurate and hurtful" in a statement.
"While Whoopi has apologized, I have asked her to take the time to think about and learn about the implications of my comments," Godwin said. "The entire ABC News organization stands in solidarity with our Jewish allies, friends, family and communities."
Goldberg made the remarks Monday morning, when the panel was discussing the Tennessee school board's banning of "Mauss," a graphic novel about Nazi death camps.
"It's about the Holocaust, killing six million people, but it didn't matter to you?" he said. "If you're going to do this, let's be truthful about it. Because the Holocaust isn't about race. No, it's not about race."
Another host, Joy Behar, responded that the Nazis described Jews as a separate race.
"But it's not about the race," Goldberg said. "Not so. It's about man's inhumanity towards another man."
When another host said that white supremacy was behind the Holocaust – and that the Nazis targeted Jewish and Roma people – Goldberg said they were a "white group of people." When a third host pointed out that the Nazis did not see Jews as white, Goldberg said she was "missing the point."