EXCLUSIVE: Whoopi Goldberg’s fake Jewish past: The View host wrote 1993 recipe for ‘Jewish American Princess Fried Chicken’ then claimed SHE was a practicing Jew – as insiders slam ‘decades’ of ‘disgusting’ appropriation and anti-Semitism
- In 1993, Whoopi Goldberg submitted a recipe to a cookbook that was made-up of recipes by the waspy residents of a Connecticut county
- She called it Jewish American Princess Fried Chicken and joked about Jewish women sending their ‘chauffeurs’ to shop, and having ‘Cook’ prepare the meal
- ‘Watch your nails!’ she joked in the recipe which finished: ‘You must be exhausted!’
- The Anti-Defamation League slammed it at the time as ‘insulting’ and ‘anti-Semitic’
- Whoopi’s agent defended her by claiming she is Jewish herself, so can’t be anti-Semitic
- Whoopi said in the past that she chose the Jewish name Goldberg to be her stage-name because she has ‘Jewish ancestors’
- It has been reported elsewhere that she chose it because her mother told her she’d get more auditions in Hollywood if people thought she was Jewish
- Noa Tishby, an Israeli actress, writer and activist, told DailyMail.com the recipe re-enforced harmful stereotypes
- Eve Barlow, a writer and journalist, called Whoopi’s actions ‘disgustingly appropriated’