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Zahra Billoo speaks at the Jan. 2018 Women's March in San Francisco. (Photo/Wikimedia-Pax Ahimsa Gethen CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Myopia on race; Zahra Billoo was wronged; Can’t stop Russia

by J. Readers March 7, 2022

Different narratives on oppression It is good that Whoopi Goldberg is back on “The View” from her “time out” for expressing her opinion that Nazis and Jews were both white, […]

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The ‘Maus’ hole; Sexual abuse at Camp Arazim; J. archives are a treasure; etc.

by J. Readers February 18, 2022
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Are Jews white? Is Whoopi Goldberg Jewish? ‘The View’ Holocaust controversy, explained

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA February 3, 2022
Whoopi Goldberg arrives for the 90th Annual Academy Awards on March 4, 2018. (Photo/JTA-Valerie Macon-AFP via Getty Images)
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Whoopi Goldberg’s Holocaust comments were wrong — and I’m glad she said them

Nora Berman by Nora Berman and Forward February 2, 2022

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