Tiffany Haddish is speaking out after receiving backlash for revealing she was traveling to Israel to see for herself what’s going on in Gaza.
The comedian spoke with TMZ today about her experience and explained how she’s learned so much and how she’s been educating herself on the war in the Middle East. As we previously reported, Tiffany stated that she wanted to go see what was going on with her own eyes because she doesn’t tend to believe everything she sees on social media. During the interview she shared that she learned people were dragged from their homes and taken hostage during the Oct. 7 Hamas attack. She also shared that people were kidnapped at a music festival on that same day.
“The people that actually have family members that are hostages that were taken out of their own homes, that were on their way to work driving from Palestine to Israel, working here on a daily basis, and how they were taken as well. I wanted to talk to the people. I wanted to be with the people. I wanted to see with my own eyes, hear with my own ears,” Tiffany shared.
She continued, “There were a lot of people killed, but a lot of people were kidnapped from that event. I didn’t know that before. I’ve learned that there were 100 people that have been freed from being hostages in Gaza, but there are still 100 plus people that are over there.”
Tiffany also was asked if she’ll be visiting Israel’s retaliation in Gaza where health officials say that 25,000 deaths resulted in.
“Yes, I’m going over there too,” she replied, growing audibly emotional. “I’m a firm believer in: ‘Go see with your own eyes before you pass judgement.’ Go over there cautiously, be cautious, but go see for yourself. I care about both sides. I care about humanity. Human beings.
“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.”
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While addressing the backlash she received Tiffany she brought up Mo’Nique’s recent comments about her previously speaking on her husband during an old interview with GQ. “I said I don’t do my business the way she does business because I don’t have a husband I don’t have what she has. I’m all alone, that’s what I’m trying to tell you guys I’m doing this all by myself. I don’t have a whole family full of men or a man supporting me I’m doing it on my own. I’m learning on my own.”
As we previously shared, Tiffany cracked a joke about possibly finding her future man during the trip but she also got very serious in her video and once again explained how the trip was educational purposes.