Host-actress Whoopi Goldberg defended Nicki Minaj on "The View" last Tuesday after the rapper received a barrage of criticism and hatred over her new music video for her single "Only". Goldberg insisted that Minaj came from a place of ignorance rather than hate.

In the said black-and-white animated video, Minaj is depicted as a dictator who leads an army of soldiers wearing red armbands. Nazi-inspired imagery is present throughout the whole video.

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Among others, officials at the Anti-Defamation League (Adl) and singer Barry Manilow have expressed their anger toward the images in the video.

Goldberg stated that she thinks Minaj is not at all knowledgeable about the Holocaust, so she didn't recognize how controversial the video would be before she filmed it.

"We don't teach a lot of history anymore. We don't teach the history of the world, we don't teach the history of World War II, we don't explain what went on..." Goldberg shared.

Guest co-host and "Glee" star Naya Rivera, however, disagreed with Goldberg, saying that even if Minaj wasn't fully educated on the Holocaust and, what had happened during the war, "everybody knows" what Nazism is. "Nazi equals bad, we don't talk about it...," Rivera added.

Since the controversy, Minaj has taken to Twitter to apologize for the video, posting, "Both the producer, & person in charge of over seeing the lyric video (one of my best friends & videographer: A. Loucas), happen to be Jewish... I didn't come up w/ (with) the concept, but I'm very sorry & take full responsibility if it has offended anyone. I'd never condone Nazism in my art."

Jeff Osborne, the director of the video, stated that he feels that what they had tried to put out was "misinterpreted", but that he isn't sorry for the work they had done.

In a statement released to the press, "I think its (sic) actually important to remind younger generations of atrocities that occurred in the past as a way to prevent them from happening in the future. And the most effective way of connecting with people today is through social media and pop culture. So if my work is misinterpreted because it's not a sappy tearjerker, sorry I'm not sorry."