diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/2236-jira-isinstance.yml b/changelogs/fragments/2236-jira-isinstance.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e80cbacdf9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/2236-jira-isinstance.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - jira - fixed calling of ``isinstance`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/2234).
diff --git a/plugins/modules/web_infrastructure/jira.py b/plugins/modules/web_infrastructure/jira.py
index d4ddf53015..d7c88c01b8 100644
--- a/plugins/modules/web_infrastructure/jira.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/web_infrastructure/jira.py
@@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ def request(
     auth = to_text(base64.b64encode(to_bytes('{0}:{1}'.format(user, passwd), errors='surrogate_or_strict')))
 
     headers = {}
-    if isinstance(additional_headers) == dict:
+    if isinstance(additional_headers, dict):
         headers = additional_headers.copy()
     headers.update({
         "Content-Type": content_type,