Australia revokes Ye's entry visa over his "Heil Hitler" song

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Ye, the American rapper formerly known arsenic Kanye West, has been barred from entering Australia due to the fact that of his pro-Nazi opus "Heil Hitler," the country's migration curate told Australia's ABC tv web connected Tuesday.

The song, which was archetypal released successful May, has been banned successful Germany and from online platforms including Spotify, YouTube and Apple Music due to the fact that of its antisemitism lyrics praising Adolf Hitler. The opus repeats the slogan hailing the Nazi German person and includes a nonstop illustration from a code Hitler gave successful 1935.

Speaking to ABC, Immigration Minister Tony Burke revealed the prohibition connected Ye portion discussing the reported cancellation of a visa for Israeli-American tech property Hillel Fuld, implicit a remark helium posted declaring: "Islamophobia is rational."

Burke said the Australian government's determination to cancel overseas nationals' visas were astir often made for radical seeking to marque "public speeches," earlier adding: "The lone 1 I tin deliberation of wherever it wasn't for nationalist advocacy - the visa - but we cancelled it anyway, would beryllium Kanye West."

Ye, who is joined to Australian Bianca Censori, had been visiting the state "for a agelong time," Burke said.

"He's made a batch of violative comments," added the migration minister, "that my officials looked astatine again erstwhile helium released the Heil Hitler song, and helium nary longer has a valid visa successful Australia."

"If you're going to person a opus and beforehand that benignant of Nazism, we don't request that successful Australia," said Burke. "We person capable problems successful this state already without deliberately importing bigotry."

Asked if the prohibition was "sustainable" fixed Ye's planetary popularity, Burke replied: "I deliberation that what's not sustainable is to import hatred."

He said the authorities had not banned Ye from entering Australia permanently, noting that "every visa exertion gets reassessed by my officials each time."

Ye's past of antisemitism

CBS News received nary contiguous effect to a petition for remark from Ye that was submitted via his manner brand, Yeezy, oregon from Australia's location affairs section erstwhile asked astir the ban.

A spokesperson for the ministry told The Guardian Australia newspaper, however, that the "government volition proceed to enactment decisively to support the assemblage from the hazard of harm posed by individuals who take to prosecute successful transgression enactment oregon behaviour of concern, including visa cancelation oregon refusal wherever appropriate."

Ye has a years-long past of making antisemitic remarks. In 2022, his X and Instagram accounts were suspended for antisemitic posts. Later that twelvemonth helium told Alex Jones: "I emotion Jewish people, but I besides emotion Nazis… I bash emotion Hitler."

In 2023, aft Ye's matrimony to Censori, the Australian Jewish Association called for Ye to beryllium denied introduction to the country.

In February 2025, Ye again had his X again suspended implicit a bid of antisemitic posts that helium defended arsenic a "social experiment."

One station published during the past Super Bowl declared: "I AM A NAZI."

Ye besides paid for an advertisement during the Super Bowl, successful which helium directed radical to sojourn his covering brand's website, wherever helium was selling t-shirts emblazoned with the swastika, the awesome of the Nazi Party, for $20.

Frank Andrews

Frank Andrews is simply a CBS News writer based successful London.

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