Yeah, I don't think Whoopi is viewing this in rational terms, but this perception is pretty ubiquitous in black communities, and I do understand where it is coming from. Blacks suffer from two things - discrimination based on appearance, and economic inequality. They see Jews pass as white and see them disproportianately in positions of wealth and influence. Not only that, they see articles like the one that appeared in the NYT recently proclaiming that Jews and Blacks 'are in the same boat'. Black Americans tend to see Jews as an especially privileged type of white person that masquerades as oppressed and claims minority status as cover for any unethical conduct, and I can totally understand how they could get this idea and not spend too much time thinking about this in another way