Australia should refuse to let American rapper Ye into the country or risk putting the Jewish community at “significant risk”, a leading civil rights organisation says.
The Anti-Defamation Commission is lobbying for Immigration Minister Andrew Giles to block entry for the rapper, formerly known as Kanye West, deriding him as a “hatemonger who spews threats against the Jewish community”.
Ye is reportedly visiting Melbourne in coming days to meet the family of his supposed new “wife”, designer Bianca Censori.
The Anti-Defamation Commission, in calling for Ye’s visa to be blocked, pointed to a previous tweet from the rapper saying he would go “death con 3 on Jewish people”.
The commission noted Ye in an October interview repeatedly blamed “Jewish media” and stated the community would, “especially in the music industry … take us and milk us till we die”.
In a December interview, Ye also claimed six million Jews had not been murdered by the Holocaust and suggested he liked Hitler and Nazis, the commission said.
“Calling for violence and hate must have consequences and Australia should not put out the welcome mat and provide a platform to a hatemonger who spews threats against the Jewish community and peddles conspiracy myths about Jewish power, greed and control,” commission chairman Dvir Abramovich said.
“Kanye is a blatant, unvarnished anti-semite, Nazi-lover and Hitler worshipper who openly admires an evil tyrant responsible for the extermination of six million Jews, including 1.5 million children.”
Ye has denied being anti-semitic.
Read the article in the INDaily (AAP).