Tiffany Haddish is facing criticism for embarking on an “educational trip” to Israel because the Israel-Hamas war rages on.
The 44-year-old “Girls Trip” actress and comedian, who came upon she was Jewish later in life and had her Bat Mitzvah at 40, went Instagram Live on Tuesday from her “business class” seat on an airplane, letting her 7.4 million followers know that she’s taking a “16-hour” flight from Los Angeles to Israel “to learn and see with my very own eyes.”
“I’m gonna go meet my future man on the market. I’m out. I’m going to the Holy Land. I suggest you all do it,” Haddish told the camera with a glass of “orange juice” in her hand.
“That is orange juice, it’s not a mimosa,” the “Night School” star, who has had two DUIs, claimed. “Champagne gives me gas. I might never try this to these people.”
Singing her own made-up tune, Haddish told viewers, “On my way to Tel Aviv, then to Jerusalem. Then I’m going to the Dead Sea and goin’ get me some. Gonna have some fun, yeah. It’s gonna be great. Then I’m gonna learn concerning the politics, ay.”
“Who said I wasn’t going to Gaza?” she responded to a fan’s comment on the Live. “I said I’m going to go see with my very own eyes. Gotta go to Israel first.”
“And isn’t Gaza in Israel?” she asked concerning the Palestinian city. “Ain’t all of it on the identical continent, the identical little piece of land and surrounded by water?”
Her trip comes after the US vetoed an Arab-sponsored resolution that called for a right away cease-fire in Gaza and the discharge of all hostages in a UN Security Council vote Tuesday. America is pushing its own proposal that might see a hostage-exchange deal secured first.
When one other fan asked if her trip was for “vacation or work,” Haddish claimed it was for a “history lesson.”
“That is sociology,” she continued. “That is an academic trip for me. I need to go get educated. I need to see what’s really happening. I need to find out how it began, why it began.”
“I need to see where Jesus walked. I need to see all of the stuff in all places they talked about within the Bible. I need to see all that. So if it’s within the Bible, I’m probably gonna be there.”
Fans on social media quickly criticized Haddish’s post.
“Really Tiff?! Wow, truthfully there a lot I could say but rattling that is heartbreaking, you will not be a secure space and your instincts are inherently flawed and dangerous,” one spectator wrote on Instagram.
“If ignorant and dumb was a person………” one other said.
One person tweeted, “… does she even have 10 brain cells, I’d love to know?”
“The situation is heart-wrenching, resembling a scene from a horror movie, with the tragic killing of hundreds of Palestinians. Amidst this, she approaches the trip as a leisurely, paid vacation, which I find utterly disheartening,” one other wrote.
Elsewhere within the 13-minute video, Haddish said, “I do know a lot of stuff on social media be not true because I see stuff people say stuff about me, and I’m living my life, and I’m like, ‘That’s not true.’”
“So before I get to speaking on stuff — I’ve heard from those that live there on either side of the gate. now I’m gonna go see.”
“What I saw online, I didn’t like,” Haddish stated. “And I do know a lot of those that have gone. So many individuals have gone and they arrive back alive, come back tremendous.”
The Post has contacted reps for Haddish for comment.
After her latest DUI arrest on Thanksgiving Day, Haddish told fans last month that her driver’s license continues to be “very valid.”
“You already know, within the state of California if you really get a for real DUI, they suspend your license if you blow over the limit… but when you’re not over the limit, your license is valid,” she explained in one other Instagram video on the time. “My license just isn’t suspended. It’s very valid, very, very valid.”