Tiffany Haddish faced flak on social media on Tuesday as she shared a clip from the first-class cabin of a flight bound for Israel, where she said she was visiting to get a better understanding of its ongoing conflict with Hamas.
Haddish, 44, spoke to her more than 7.4 million followers on Instagram as she relaxed in business class and nursed an orange juice.
Haddish noted that she was ‘sleepy as hell’ and had planned to rest over the course of the 16-hour flight ahead of her as she departed out of Los Angeles.
The Emmy-winning actress-comic said she planned on visiting locations including Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and the Dead Sea in an effort to gain more knowledge on the conflict, which began October 7 after Hamas rampaged a music festival in southern Israel, slaughtering around 1,200 people and taking hostage another 250.
‘This is an educational trip for me … I’m gonna learn about the politics,’ Haddish said. ‘See, I feel like I can’t believe I see everything on the Internet … I need to go see for myself, I’m one of those people.’
Tiffany Haddish, 44, faced flak on social media on Tuesday as she shared a clip from the first-class cabin of a flight bound for Israel, where she said she was visiting to get a better understanding of its ongoing conflict with Hamas
Haddish spoke to her more than 7.4 million followers on Instagram as she relaxed in business class and nursed an orange juice
She added, ‘I’m gonna go see for myself, I’m gonna go see, I’m gonna go see all of it, I’m gonna ask questions – see with my own eyes.’
Haddish said she didn’t ‘believe everything’ she sees on social media, citing her own personal experiences in which information posted about her turned out to be incorrect.
She said, ‘I know a lot of stuff on social media be not true because … I see stuff people say about me, and I live my life – I’m living my life and I’m like, “That’s not what I said, that’s not true.”‘
Haddish said she wanted to form her own opinion based off experience before she spoke publicly on the topic, adding that she’s personally heard from people on both sides of the conflict.
‘I’m gonna go see and then I’m gonna tell y’all what I think, I’m gonna go see with my own eyes,’ Haddish said.
Haddish said she ‘did not like’ things she has seen online about the ongoing conflict, and felt it was safe to travel to Israel after seeing others do so.
‘I know a lot of people that have gone; so many people have gone and then come back alive, come back fine,’ she said. ‘So I want to go see – I want to go see, and we gonna see what it is and I’ll show y’all some of it while I’m there.
‘I’m gonna go talk to people, I’m gonna go find out why is this happening? Why is this going down?’
A picture taken Tuesday inn southern Israel shows destroyed buildings in the Gaza Strip amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas
The Emmy-winning actress-comic said she planned on visiting locations including Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and the Dead Sea in an effort to gain more knowledge on the conflict
Haddish said she ‘did not like’ things she has seen online about the ongoing conflict, and felt it was safe to travel to Israel after seeing others do so
One user noted how Haddish’s luxurious travels – ‘First class, I see’ – undermined the devastation of the ongoing conflict
One commenter said that Haddish was ‘clowning for clout’ with the international trip
Among the torrent of reactions, one commenter suggested Haddish take the matter more seriously
In response to one commenter who asked why she wasn’t going to the Gaza Strip, Haddish replied, ‘Who said I wasn’t going to Gaza?
‘I said I was gonna see with my own eyes, got to go to Israel first and isn’t Gaza in Israel? Ain’t it all on the same little piece of land, same … surrounded by water?’ (Gaza borders Israel and Egypt.)
The comment section was a blend of reactions, with some wishing her a safe trip, and others saying she was behaving in a manner too cavalier while headed to the battle-torn region.
One user noted how Haddish’s luxurious travels – ‘First class, I see’ – undermined the devastation of the ongoing conflict, while another one commenter suggested Haddish take the matter more seriously. Another commenter said that Haddish was ‘clowning for clout’ with the international trip.
A user advised Haddish to visit the entirety of the region to get the full story.
‘Go to Gaza. Not just Tel Aviv,’ the user said. ‘Then come back and report. Otherwise it’s like just going to Wall Street and say you’ve seen all of New York.’
Many users expressed their personal political opinions on the conflict in relation to Haddish’s travels.
‘The fact you can fly and “holiday” in Israel but Gaza is pretty much destroyed gives you all the information you really need,’ the user said. ‘This isn’t a war, it’s genocide.’
Another said, ‘Yeah I’m out. You’re on the wrong side of history,’ the the hashtag, #FREEPALESTINE.
Some commenters expressed disgust with Haddish’s demeanor, while others wished her well
The comment section was a blend of reactions, with some saying she seemed too cavalier on her trip to the battle-torn region
Said one user: ‘Do some work to learn about the harms of white supremacy and settler colonialism in Palestine. White Europeans stole the land of indigenous Palestinians and murdered or displaced most of them.
‘Palestinians continue to live under occupation and settler colonialism to this day. Palestinians are continuing to be ethnically cleansed by Israelis. We are witnessing a genocide committed by the Israeli military against the Palestinian people live.’
Another user said, ‘Girl, you better be joking. This s*** isn’t funny and very disappointing.’
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