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<\/a><\/p>\nKanye West and Bianca Censori attend the 67th Grammy Awards at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, Feb. 2, 2025. (Axelle\/Bauer-Griffin\/FilmMagic)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The announcement came Wednesday after Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said officials had reviewed his visa status following the controversial song\u2019s release in May.<\/p>\n
Ye is currently married to Bianca Censori, an Australian architect, and had been \u201ccoming to Australia for a long time,\u201d Burke told national broadcaster ABC on Wednesday. \u201cHe\u2019s got family here and he\u2019s made a lot of offensive comments that my officials looked at again.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt wasn\u2019t a visa for the purpose of concerts. It was a lower level and the officials still looked at the law and said you\u2019re going to have a song and promote that sort of Nazism, we don\u2019t need that in Australia,\u201d Burke said of the visa cancellation.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have enough problems in this country already without deliberately importing bigotry,\u201d Burke continued.<\/p>\n
The announcement comes as Australia faces an increase in antisemitic incidents. In Australia last year, according to the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, there were 1,713 antisemitic incidents, compared to 1,200 in 2023.<\/p>\n
Last December, a synagogue in suburban Melbourne, Australia was set ablaze and two synagogues in Sydney were defaced with swastikas and other antisemitic language in January.<\/p>\n
Following the release of the song \u2014 which includes the chorus line \u201cAll my n****s Nazis, n***a, heil Hitler\u201d \u2014 Ye appeared to repent for his previous antisemitism.<\/p>\n
In May, the morning after the deadly shooting of two Israeli embassy workers in Washington D.C., the rapper took to X to say he was \u201cdone with antisemitism.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ye\u2019s Australian visa cancellation also follows the cancellation of the U.S. visas for Bob Vylan, a British punk band that led thousands of concert-goers at the Glastonbury music festival in chanting \u201cDeath, death to the IDF\u201d last weekend.<\/p>\n
Far-right pundit Candace Owens also faced visa cancellations from Australia and New Zealand last fall, with Australia rejecting her request for a visa over remarks in which she denied Nazi medical experimentation on Jews in concentration camps during World War II.<\/p>\n