The 'Girls Trip' actress continues to be dragged online after she livestreams segments of her tour while being driven around Jerusalem in a bus that appears to contain other influencers and pro-Israeli media figures.
- Feb 24, 2024
AceShowbiz - Tiffany Haddish continues to face the wrath of social media users after posting about her trip to Israel. After defending her trip amid the backlash, the comedian went live on Instagram to share footage from the country.
In the video, she was in a bus with her several people, who were seemingly influencers and pro-Israeli media figures. As she was drive around Jerusalem, one man explained to her, "We believe that God's presence never really left this place, right? This is the holiest place. Therefore, you'll see people praying from any religion by the way. Not just Jews."
Tiffany, who seemingly was holding the camera, then showed a girl sitting next to her and said, "She's with me." She said her friend wanted to join her, so she told her, "Come with me, girl. Educate." The actress also panned the camera to a female soldier holding a gun on the street, claiming, "She ready."
People were clearly not impressed with Tiffany's update on her Israel trip. After the video was reposted on The Jasmine Brand's Instagram page, one person claimed, "Aww she got a all expense paid trip to spread propaganda."
"She's on an influencer trip a few miles away from where kids being slaughtered. Must be fun," another alleged. A third pointed out, "Meanwhile people on the other side are literally starving to death. Smfh dystopian af."
"This is disgusting. To make a mockery of the pain and suffering," someone lamented. Another critic penned, "These people are over there committing a whole genocide, and she's over there spreading the message of Zionist. Talk about being tone deaf and out of touch."
"WHEN YOU GOING TO PALESTINE TO EDUCATE YOURSELF?????" someone asked. Many others filled the comments with rallying cries of "Free Palestine."
Tiffany previously came under fire after informing her fans about her "educational trip" to Israel amid the country's ongoing conflict with Hamas. Defending her trip, she told "TMZ Live" on Wednesday, February 21, "I can't believe everything that I read. I need to go see for myself. I want to talk to the actual people that's here, the people that actually experienced the situation that happened on the 7th."
When asked about Israel's counter attack in Gaza, the "Like a Boss" star said, "Yes, I'm going over there too. I'm a firm believer in: 'Go see with your own eyes before you pass judgment.' Go over there cautiously, be cautious, but go see for yourself." She insisted, "I care about both sides. I care about humanity. Human beings."
She grew emotional as saying, "I know there's a lot of religious stuff going on, a lot of control of the land, 'No Jews here, no this there' whatever... that's neither here nor there with me. It's about human life, human beings. Human beings, man! That's what I care about. That's why I'm here."
Tiffany also responded to the criticism that she shouldn't have joked about finding a man in Israel given the seriousness of the situation. "I'm here all by myself. Just like I was saying in 2018 when they were asking me about Mo'Nique and her husband, I said I don't do my business like she does her business. Because I don't have a husband. I don't have what she has. I'm all alone!" she explained. "That's what I'm trying to tell you guys. I'm doing this all by myself."
"For people to say... I have to make light of something that the average female wouldn't do," she continued. "The average female wouldn't have the courage to go see for themselves. There's a lot of scary a** b***hes out here, and y'all can be scared, but I'm going to go ahead and follow my instincts, and learn as much as I can learn. Educate myself before I go speaking on subject matters."
