Ye, the American rapper previously referred to as Kanye West, has been barred from getting into Australia due to his pro-Nazi track “Heil Hitler,” the nation’s immigration minister instructed Australia’s ABC tv community on Tuesday.
The track, which was first launched in Could, has been banned in Germany and from on-line platforms together with Spotify, YouTube and Apple Music due to its antisemitism lyrics praising Adolf Hitler. The track repeats the slogan hailing the Nazi German chief and features a direct pattern from a speech Hitler gave in 1935.
Chatting with ABC, Immigration Minister Tony Burke revealed the ban on Ye whereas discussing the reported cancellation of a visa for Israeli-American tech persona Hillel Fuld, over a remark he posted declaring: “Islamophobia is rational.”
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Burke stated the Australian authorities’s determination to cancel international nationals’ visas had been most frequently made for folks searching for to make “public speeches,” earlier than including: “The one one I can consider the place it wasn’t for public advocacy – the visa – however we cancelled it anyway, can be Kanye West.”
Ye, who’s married to Australian Bianca Censori, had been visiting the nation “for a very long time,” Burke stated.
“He is made quite a lot of offensive feedback,” added the immigration minister, “that my officers checked out once more as soon as he launched the Heil Hitler track, and he not has a legitimate visa in Australia.”
“If you are going to have a track and promote that form of Nazism, we do not want that in Australia,” stated Burke. “Now we have sufficient issues on this nation already with out intentionally importing bigotry.”
Requested if the ban was “sustainable” given Ye’s international recognition, Burke replied: “I feel that what’s not sustainable is to import hatred.”
He stated the federal government had not banned Ye from getting into Australia completely, noting that “each visa utility will get reassessed by my officers every time.”
Ye’s historical past of antisemitism
CBS Information acquired no response to a request for remark from Ye that was submitted by way of his trend model, Yeezy.
A spokesperson for Australia’s dwelling affairs division instructed CBS Information that “the Division doesn’t touch upon particular person circumstances,” including, the “authorities will proceed to behave decisively to guard the neighborhood from the chance of hurt posed by people who select to have interaction in felony exercise or conduct of concern, together with visa cancelation or refusal the place applicable.”
Ye has a historical past of constructing antisemitic remarks. In 2022, his X and Instagram accounts had been suspended for antisemitic posts. Later that yr he instructed Alex Jones: “I like Jewish folks, however I additionally love Nazis… I do love Hitler.”
In 2023, after Ye’s marriage to Censori, the Australian Jewish Affiliation known as for Ye to be denied entry to the nation.
In February 2025, Ye once more had his X once more suspended over a sequence of antisemitic posts that he defended as a “social experiment.”
One publish revealed over the last Tremendous Bowl declared: “I AM A NAZI.”
Ye additionally paid for an advert through the Tremendous Bowl, by which he directed folks to go to his clothes model’s web site, the place he was promoting t-shirts emblazoned with the swastika, the image of the Nazi Occasion, for $20.
