Whoopi Goldberg suspended from 'The View' for 2 weeks a day after saying 'the Holocaust isn't about race'

• Whoopi Goldberg was suspended from "The View" for two weeks, ABC News said.
• Goldberg said on the show on Monday that "the Holocaust wasn't about race."

Whoopi Goldberg, a cohost of "The View," has been suspended from the show for two weeks, CNN reporter Oliver Darcy first reported and ABC News confirmed to Insider.

Goldberg's suspension comes a day after she said on the ABC talk show that "the Holocaust isn't about race," but rather "man's inhumanity to man."

Goldberg issued an apology the same day, saying, "I'm sorry for the hurt I have caused."

"As Jonathan Greenblatt from the Anti-Defamation League shared, 'The Holocaust was about the Nazi's systematic annihilation of the Jewish people — who they deemed to be an inferior race.' I stand corrected," Goldberg also said in her statement.

A representative for Goldberg did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

"Effective immediately, I am suspending Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks for her wrong and hurtful comments. While Whoopi has apologized, I've asked her to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments," Kim Godwin, the president of ABC News, said in a statement sent to Insider. "The entire ABC News organization stands in solidarity with our Jewish colleagues, friends, family, and communities."

The DailyBeast reported that multiple unnamed sources said Goldberg's costars Sunny Hostin, Joy Behar, and Ana Navarro were upset by the decision to suspend Goldberg.

Goldberg's Holocaust comments were made during a discussion between the cohosts about the recent rise in book bans across the country — including a Tennessee school district's decision to ban "Maus," a graphic novel by Art Spiegelman about the Holocaust, in January.

The McMinn County school board argued that the book's use of the phrase "God damn" and an illustration of a nude mouse were "completely unnecessary."

"If you're going to do this, let's be truthful about it because the Holocaust isn't about race," Goldberg continued. "No. It's not about race! It's about man's inhumanity to man. That's what it's about."

Goldberg added that the genocide was about "how people treat each other."

On Monday, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum tweeted: "Racism was central to Nazi ideology. Jews were not defined by religion, but by race. Nazi racist beliefs fueled genocide and mass murder."

The Nazis sought to purge Jewish people — along with other groups, including Roma, people with disabilities, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, Afro-Germans, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, political dissidents — from Germany as they were viewed as inferior to the German Aryan race, the museum's website said. Ultimately, 6 million Jewish people died during the Holocaust.