Tiffany Haddish is facing criticism for embarking on an “educational trip” to Israel as the Israel-Hamas war rages on.
The 44-year-old “Girls Trip” actress and comedian, who found out 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 own eyes.”
“I’m gonna go meet my future man out there. 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.
“This is orange juice, it’s not a mimosa,” the “Night School” star, who has had two DUIs, claimed. “Champagne gives me gas. I would never do that 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 about 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 own eyes. Gotta go to Israel first.”
“And isn’t Gaza in Israel?” she asked about the Palestinian city. “Ain’t it all on the same continent, the same little piece of land and surrounded by water?”
Her trip comes after the US vetoed an Arab-sponsored resolution that called for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza and the release of all hostages in a UN Security Council vote Tuesday. America is pushing its own proposal that would see a hostage-exchange deal secured first.
When another fan asked if her trip was for “vacation or work,” Haddish claimed it was for a “history lesson.”
“This is sociology,” she continued. “This is an educational trip for me. I want to go get educated. I want to see what’s really going on. I want to learn how it started, why it started.”
“I want to see where Jesus walked. I want to see all the stuff everywhere they talked about in the Bible. I want to see all that. So if it’s in the Bible, I’m probably gonna be there.”
Fans on social media quickly criticized Haddish’s post.
“Really Tiff?! Wow, honestly there so much I could say but damn this is heartbreaking, you are not a safe space and your instincts are inherently flawed and dangerous,” one spectator wrote on Instagram.
“If ignorant and dumb was a person………” another 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 thousands of Palestinians. Amidst this, she approaches the trip as a leisurely, paid vacation, which I find utterly disheartening,” another wrote.
Elsewhere in the 13-minute video, Haddish said, “I 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 people that live there on both sides of the gate. now I’m gonna go see.”
“What I saw online, I did not like,” Haddish stated. “And I know a lot of people that have gone. So many people have gone and they come back alive, come back fine.”
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 is still “very valid.”
“You know, in the state of California when you really get a for real DUI, they suspend your license when you blow over the limit… but if you’re not over the limit, your license is valid,” she explained in another Instagram video at the time. “My license is not suspended. It’s very valid, very, very valid.”