The Australian authorities has canceled the visa of American rapper Kanye West, also called Ye, following the discharge of a tune titled “Heil Hitler”, which promotes Nazi ideology, the nation’s House Affairs Minister introduced on Tuesday.
The tune, launched in Might, got here months after a collection of antisemitic statements by West on social media, together with remarks equivalent to “I really like Hitler” and “I’m a Nazi,” posted on platform X.
House Affairs Minister Tony Burke informed newsmen that though West’s earlier feedback had not initially affected his visa standing, the discharge of the brand new tune prompted a contemporary evaluation.
“It was a lower-level visa and the officers nonetheless regarded on the regulation and stated, ‘You’re going to have a tune and promote that type of Nazism, we don’t want that in Australia,’” Burke stated.
“We have now sufficient issues on this nation already with out intentionally importing bigotry,” he added.
West, who’s married to Australian architect Bianca Censori, has longstanding ties to Australia and was a daily customer earlier than the visa revocation. Nonetheless, Burke’s workplace declined to verify the precise date the visa was canceled.
The choice follows a string of current entry bans by Australia, together with these imposed final month on pro-Israel influencer Hillel Fuld and in October on U.S. conservative commentator Candace Owens.
