Peter Dutton calls for Kanye West to be banned from Australia after the rapper declared his ‘love’ for Hitler and the Nazis: ‘His behaviour is appalling and he’s not a person of good character’
Former Home Affairs minister Peter Dutton has called for the artist formerly known Kanye West to be barred from entering Australia ahead of his anticipated trip.
Ye, as he is now known, married Australian woman Bianca Censori, 27, in a non-binding ceremony earlier this month in Utah and is rumoured to be travelling to Melbourne next week to meet her family.
The local Jewish community is already demanding the Albanese government knock back any potential visa application following the outspoken rapper’s series of very public anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi rants made over the past several months.
‘All non-citizens must meet, and continue to meet, requirements set out in the Migration Act, including security and character requirements,’ a spokesperson for Mr Giles said in a statement.
In an interview on 3AW radio on Tuesday, federal Opposition leader Peter Dutton said Ye’s remarks were ”disgraceful’ that ‘his conduct and his behaviour is appalling’ and that he’s ‘not a person of good character’.
Dutton, who was also Minister for Defence in the Scott Morrison government, is a staunch conservative who leads the National Right faction of the Liberal Party.
‘I’ve got to say, my inclination would be not to allow him in,’ he said.
‘The minister’s got a lot to weigh up, but I must say my instinct would be if I was that decision maker, I think there are better people we could welcome in.’
He publicly claimed ‘Jewish Zionists’ were putting negative stories in the media about him and was blocked on Instagram after insisting fellow rapper Sean Combs, or Diddy, was being ‘controlled by Jews’.
On Twitter, he said he would soon go ‘death con 3 on Jewish people’ in reference to the American military’s DEFCON alert ratings and was suspended on that platform after he later tweeted an image of a Nazi swastika intertwined with a Jewish Star of David.
In an October 16 interview he claimed ‘Jewish people have owned the Black voice’ and that ‘the Jewish community, especially in the music industry…they’ll take us and milk us till we die’.
Ye also appeared on a podcast with notorious far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and on his ‘InfoWars’ television show where he talked at length about his favourable view of Nazis and that he ‘loves Hitler’.
His partnerships with a raft of high profile companies such as Vogue, CAA, Balenciaga, Gap, and Adidas were subsequently torn up – costing him by some estimates more than $1billion.
Some have voiced concerns about Ye’s mental health after his erratic behaviour, with the 22-time Grammy winner previously revealing he had bi-polar disorder.
Others – going back to his days appearing regularly alongside Donald Trump – have even questioned if the behaviour was some kind of elaborate piece of long-running performance art.
