ABC News staffers are furious at the network for not firing Whoopi Goldberg after she claimed that the Holocaust wasn't about race, with some accusing the network of having an anti-Semitic 'blind spot'.

Whoopi, 66, made the controversial comments on The View on Monday.  She referred to Jews and Nazis as 'two groups of white people' and said that because they were both white, it was about 'inhumanity' and not race'. 

Her remarks sparked immediate international backlash with everyone from the Israeli Consular General in New York to the Auschwitz Memorial and Antidefamation League taking offense. ABC has refused to comment on the scandal. 

Whoopi posted an apology on Twitter last night saying the Holocaust was about 'both' race and inhumanity.  

On Tuesday, she made an on-air apology, then interviewed the CEO of The Anti-Defamation League, before moving on to other topics with her co-hosts.  

Ahead of The View's show on Tuesday, a senior ABC News source told DailyMail.com that staff are stunned by the network's soft touch on her remarks, especially when it was so quick to fire Roseanne Barr over racist comments towards Valerie Jarrett. 

'These comments are absolutely abhorrent and outrageous and it's time Disney and ABC grew a pair and fired her,' the source said.

'Disney took swift action and fired Roseanne Barr when she posted the awful tweet about Valerie Jarrett, yet Whoopi made her vile comments on ABC's air and they do nothing about it? Where is the leadership from within Disney?