Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, may not be suitable for an Australian visa because of his history of anti-Semitic remarks, a government minister said, as pressure mounted to deny entry to the award-winning US rapper.
Minister for Education Jason Clare condemned Ye’s “awful” anti-Semitic comments involving Hitler and the Holocaust, saying others who had made similar statements had been denied visas. “People like that who’ve applied for visas to get into Australia in the past have been rejected,” Clare said in an interview with CNN affiliate Nine News. “I expect that if he does apply he would have to go through the same process and answer the same questions that they did.
Gavin McInnes, founder of the Proud Boys, a male-only group who identify as “Western chauvinists,” was denied a visa in 2018 after a public campaign that included a petition with 81,000 signatories, according to Australian media. Opposition leader Peter Dutton, immigration minister under a previous government, said Tuesday that he would be inclined to ban Ye but that it was a decision for the government.
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