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Australia No Friend of Free Speech As Jewish Lobby Urges Ban on Kanye: Australian minister says Kanye West could be denied entry visa

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Australian minister says Kanye West could be denied entry visa

Pressure has mounted to deny the musician an entry visa, if he tries to visit Australia, over his anti-Semitic comments.

Ye, the rapper previously known as Kanye West,
Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on February 9, 2020 [Evan Agostini/Invision/AP]

Published On 25 Jan 202325 Jan 2023

An Australian government minister has said celebrity rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, could be refused a visa to visit Australia due to anti-Semitic comments.

Australia’s Education Minister Jason Clare was responding on Wednesday to media reports that the US celebrity intended to visit the family of his new Australian partner Bianca Censori in Melbourne next week.

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Clare said he did not know if Ye had applied for a visa but that Australia has previously refused entry to people with anti-Semitic views.

“I don’t know if he’s applied for a visa yet but google it and you’ll see that it seems like he’s a pretty big fan of a person who killed six million Jewish people last century,” Clare told the Today show on Australia’s Nine Network television.

“People like that who’ve applied for visas to get into Australia in the past have been rejected. I expect that if he does apply, he would have to go through the same process and answer the same questions they did.”

A spokesperson for Ye did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Seven Network News reported that Ye and Censori intend to visit her family who live in the northeast Melbourne suburb of Ivanhoe next week.

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Last month, Ye praised Hitler in an interview with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Twitter suspended Ye after he tweeted a picture of a swastika merged with the Star of David. Ye has also been dropped by major corporate partners, including Adidas, over his comments.

Australia’s Migration Act sets security and character requirements for non-citizens to enter the country. Any decision on whether Ye gets an Australian visa would be made by Immigration Minister Andrew Giles, whose office said he could not comment on individual cases due to privacy reasons.

Australia has previously refused or revoked visas to far-right figures for failing the “good character” test. British conspiracy theorist David Icke had his visa revoked in 2019, just before starting a speaking tour.

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 local media.

Australia’s opposition leader Peter Dutton said if he were in government, he would be inclined to bar Ye on character grounds.

“My inclination would be not to allow him in,” Dutton told Melbourne’s Radio 3AW on Tuesday.

“His conduct and his behaviour is appalling, and he’s not a person of good character,” Dutton said.

The Liberal Party’s David Coleman said on Wednesday the decision to deny Ye a visa should be “easy”.

Peter Wertheim, co-chief executive officer of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, met government officials on Tuesday to argue for Ye’s entry ban.

“We had a sympathetic hearing,” Wertheim said on Sky News.

“We’ve made the case that this particular individual does not meet the character test and that it would be in the national interest not to grant him a visa and we set out our reasons in some detail.”

Elon Musk Disbands Twitter Censorship Panel on “Hate Speech” & The ADL & The Thought Control Lobby Are Going Crazy

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Elon Musk disbands Twitter panel on hate speech

Joshua MarksDecember 13, 2022 at 01:27 AMlatest revision December 13, 2022 at 08:38 AM

English Digital Content Journalist at i24NEWS | @JoshMarks784 min read

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CEO of social media platform nixes Trust and Safety Council amid spike in extremist content

New Twitter CEO Elon Musk disbanded an advisory panel set up in 2016 to address hate speech and other harmful content on the social media platform.

However, since the tech billionaire bought Twitter in a $44 billion purchase he has reinstated the account of former U.S. president Donald Trump among some 62,000 accounts brought back online. Musk also suspended the account of antisemitic rapper Kanye West.  

Three Council members resigned last week, stating in an open letter that “the safety and wellbeing of Twitter’s users are on the decline” despite claims to the contrary by Musk. The three members who left are Eirliani Abdul Rahman, Anne Collier and Lesley Podesta.

The Council consisted of volunteers who served as advisers with no governing or decision-making authority.

“ADL (Anti-Defamation League) was an active member of Twitter’s Trust and Safety Council because we strongly believed that social media companies should learn from the best practices of civil society and those communities most affected by hate, harassment, and extremism online on how to best address these issues,” said ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt.

“It is disappointing that the Council was dissolved because it’s members had valuable insights about how to make their platform a safer place for all users,” Greenblatt added.

Arik Segal, an expert on online conflicts such as hate speech and fake news, told i24NEWS that the Council was ineffective and that this was done on purpose.

“The big tech companies have this method to counter public outcry about all the troubles that they create online like fake news,” said the professor, who teaches at Israel’s Reichman and Bar Ilan universities. “They create this kind of council that doesn’t really do anything but at least they can say that there is a council. I don’t think it was meaningful [and its disbanding] won’t mean anything.”

Antisemitic posts spiked more than 61 percent in the first two weeks that Musk took control of the company, according to online hate monitors. The Network Contagion Research Institute said in early November that terms associated with Jewish people were being tweeted more than 5,000 times per hour and that antisemitic tweets were receiving the most engagement from users.

“The things that are much more troublesome with [Musk’s] behavior are the fact that he allowed those who were blocked on Twitter to be pardoned,” Segal said, expressing concern that Musk’s call on Sunday to prosecute U.S. President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci could give rise to more conspiracy theories on the extreme end of free speech.

Segal said that more structured or organizational antisemitism could be more of a problem, citing the BDS movement as an example. 

“If it’s more structured antisemitism or influencer antisemitism and hate content on Twitter, that could disseminate to other platforms,” Segal warned. “The problem with the other platforms is the echo chambers — especially WhatsApp groups and Facebook groups — and those people actually go and do something about that.”

PETITION – ‘FREE DAVID ICKE’ – PLEASE SIGN

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David Icke has been banned from all 26 Schengen countries in Europe by the Dutch government. Icke was to participate in a peace demonstration in Amsterdam. The Jewish organization CIDI (Centre of Information and Documentation Israel) objected to the arrival of David Icke and requested the mayor of Amsterdam to prevent him from speaking during this demonstration. The mayor hopped to it and soon Icke was banned. Once again we see the inordinate and anti-free speech power of some Jewish organizations, just as Kanye West noted.

­ PETITION – ‘FREE DAVID ICKE’ – PLEASE SIGN ­ ­ ­
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­ ­ ­ WE
The signatories of this petition and concerned citizens of Europe OBSERVATION
that David Icke is unlawfully denied entry to 26 Schengen countries for two years, and that as a result, among other things. Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights [1] and Article 7 of the Dutch Constitution are being violated
[2]. IT HAS BEEN OBSERVED AND SHOWN THAT David Icke is not a Holocaust denier [3]
David Icke is not an anti-Semite [3]
David Icke has no criminal record.

David Icke was invited at the end of October 2022 to speak at a peace demonstration in the Netherlands on November 6, 2022.

The Jewish organization CIDI (Centre of Information and Documentation Israel) objected to the arrival of David Icke and requested the mayor of Amsterdam to prevent him from speaking during this demonstration [4].

mayor of Amsterdam subsequently requested the Immigration and Naturalization Service (IND) to investigate whether it would be possible to prohibit David Icke from entering Dutch territory [5].
After appeals from a number of members of the House of Representatives, the State Secretary for Justice and Security decides on Thursday 4 November, late in the afternoon, to deny David Icke access to the Netherlands and 26 Schengen countries for a period of two years [6].

Statements by the government, politicians, the CIDI and the media can be regarded as libel and slander towards David Icke [7].
INVITE THE IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE AND THE DUTCH GOVERNMENT
To respect the fundamental freedoms of David Icke and to remove the alert from the Schengen Information System II [8]. ­ ­ ­
­ ­ ­ ­ SIGN NOW

ADL Orders Global Advertiser Boycott to Destroy Elon Musk’s Twitter For Not Censoring Kanye West

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Perhaps, Kanye hit a sore point. What other minority group would have the clout or nerve to call for a ruinous advertising boycott, having already inflicted great harm on the rapper, designer, turned evangelist Kanye West for merely offering a personal opinion?

As Elon Musk says, “it’s all about freedom.”

ADL Orders Global Advertiser Boycott to Destroy Elon Musk’s Twitter For Not Censoring Kanye West- November 4, 2022 https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=63445   EXTRACT  

“This past Tuesday (November 1, 2022), @Twitter’s new owner @elonmusk met with representatives from U.S civil society organizations, including @JGreenblattADL and @YaelEisenstat. Following that meeting, Musk pledged that “Twitter will continue to combat hate & harassment,” including antisemitism.”  

“Since that meeting, Musk permitted @kanyewestto start posting again. From Ye’s “Death Con 3” tweet to @KyrieIrvingpromoting an antisemitic film, we’ve seen celebrities use Twitter to disseminate antisemitic conspiracy theories and hate to tens of millions of followers.”  

Prof. Kevin Macdonald Comments on Kanye West’s Latest Remarks on Significant Jewish Control of the Mass Media — The Rapper is Not Backing Down

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-The man formerly known as Kanye West held an impromptu interview in which he recites a list of Jewish media executives and owners.

The list is apparently from Daily Stormer (2013) but I hear there are other similar-looking versions floating around the internet. I can’t vouch for its accuracy but the general idea is certainly true. In the 2002 Preface to the Second Edition of The Culture of Critique (p. xlvi and following), a listing and discussion.

After what seems like an awkward silence from the questioner who likely did not anticipate such a detailed response, the questioner goes to  Plan B, saying, “Do you think they stick together when they heard about what happened?”—as if to suggest that even if Jews have a predominant place in the media, that they don’t have any common beliefs or act together.

And yet, as is so often the case, that is pretty much what happened despite the apologetic suggestion that Jews do not have any common interests or opinions.

The whole thing blew up after “super agent” Ari Emanuel wrote an op-ed in the Financial Times on October 19.

In a blistering op-ed for the Financial Times, which was picked up by The Hollywood Reporter, super-agent Ari Emanuel — whose client list includes Martin Scorsese, Denzel Washington, Robert Downey Jr., and Oprah Winfrey — is urging his fellow entertainment industry power brokers to cease all dealings with the man currently known as Ye.

In the piece, Emanuel, who is the CEO of Endeavor, urged corporate behemoths like Apple, Adidas, and Spotify to stop working with West, as they were only giving him a wider platform from which to spread his hate speech. Emanuel also urged Parler’s parent company to not go through with any deal to sell the network to the former Mr. Kim Kardashian.

“West is not just any person,” Emanuel wrote. “He is a pop culture icon with millions of fans around the world. And among them are young people whose views are still being formed. This is why it is necessary for all of us to speak out. Hatred and anti-Semitism should have no place in our society, no matter how much money is at stake.”

The Hollywood Reporter piece notes Emanuel’s previous activism:

Emanuel’s essay referenced a 2006 piece he wrote for HuffPost in which he said entertainment companies should stop working with Mel Gibson after the antisemitic remarks he made that year during an arrest for drunk driving. In his new op-ed, Emanuel explained that he has since recommended Gibson for roles following the actor’s public apology and “commitment to understanding the consequences of his actions,” and that he would be open to helping West do the same.

Given what has happened, West is quite correct to say that he has been proved right on the Jewish  power being able to destroy people (3:46). As Joe Sobran wrote in 1996:

The full story of [Pat Buchanan’s 1996 presidential] campaign is impossible to tell as long as it’s taboo to discuss Jewish interests as freely as we discuss those of the Christian Right. Talking about American politics without mentioning the Jews is a little like talking about the NBA without mentioning the Chicago Bulls. Not that the Jews are all-powerful, let alone all bad. But they are successful, and therefore powerful enough: and their power is unique in being off-limits to normal criticism even when it’s highly visible. They themselves behave as if their success were a guilty secret, and they panic, and resort to accusations, as soon as the subject is raised. Jewish control of the major media in the media age makes the enforced silence both paradoxical and paralyzing. Survival in public life requires that you know all about it, but never refer to it. A hypocritical etiquette forces us to pretend that the Jews are powerless victims; and if you don’t respect their victimhood, they’ll destroy you. It’s a phenomenal display not of wickedness, really, but of fierce ethnocentrism, a sort of furtive racial superpatriotism.

A hypocritical etiquette indeed.

And then there’s Kanye discussing his Jewish doctor and his prescription what he calls a “misdiagnosis,” and the assertion by someone that White Lives Matter is “Anti-Semitic” — quickly retracted and changed to the idea that White Lives Matter is anti-Black.

West is obviously not on our side but he is certainly to be praised for publicizing Jewish power—and not backing down in the face of grievous financial damage. Who among us has lost so much—at least $1.5 billion (maybe 2) and counting (at least 3/4 of his fortune)—by standing up for what they regard as the truth?

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Kanye West Purged from Twitter & Instagram for Criticism of Jews

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[Kanye West is the latest minority to learn that while you may trash White people[this rapper and supporter of Donald Trump doesn’t] criticism of the most privileged minority, Jews, will land you up to your ass in alligators. The Silicon Valley censors are at it again, scrubbing Kanye for criticizing the most privileged minority.]

Twitter and Instagram remove antisemitic posts by Kanye West

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By Bryan PietschUpdated October 10, 2022 at 8:00 a.m. EDT|Published October 10, 2022 at 7:35 a.m. EDT

Twitter confirmed Sunday that it had removed a tweet by Ye, the musician and fashion designer formerly known as Kanye West, and temporarily prohibited him from further posts on the platform, as the fallout from his recent antisemitic comments on social media continued.

His account, @kanyewest, was “locked for violating Twitter’s policies,” a Twitter spokesperson said in an email Sunday, declining to state which policy he had violated. The account shows that a recent tweet violated Twitter rules.

Though the tweet is no longer visible on his account, screenshots shared widely on social media show that Ye had said he would go “death con 3” on “JEWISH PEOPLE,” an apparent reference to Defcon, the U.S. military defense readiness system. In the tweet, he used antisemitic tropes and said he could not be antisemitic “because black people are actually Jew also.”

The action by Twitter comes after Instagram removed a post from his account and similarly locked his account temporarily. A spokesperson for Meta, the parent company of Instagram formerly known as Facebook, said in an email that the platform “deleted content from @kanyewest for violating our policies and placed a restriction on the account. We may place restrictions on accounts that repeatedly break our rules, for example, we may temporarily restrict them from posting, commenting, or sending DMs.” Screenshots of the post show that Ye had posted an apparent conversation with the rapper Diddy, employing antisemitic tropes to allege that he was being influenced by Jewish people.

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After Ye was restricted by Instagram, he took to Twitter, in a tweet still visible on the platform, to criticize Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, writing: “Look at this Mark. How you gone kick me off instagram,” along with a photo of the two together in a group.

The Saturday posts came shortly after Ye tweeted a photo of a baseball cap labeled with “2024,” an apparent reference to the 2024 presidential election. The tweets were his first since 2020, when he had tweeted, “KANYE 2024.”

His social media posts have also garnered attention from political and societal figures, with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) admonishing him in a tweet late Sunday, writing: “There is absolutely no room in this country or world for antisemitism. It is important to see how harmful + dangerous Kanye’s words are — not only to our Jewish brothers, sisters, & siblings, but also to our collective society at large. We must reject this … wherever we see it. ”

Some on the right have come to defend Ye in recent days. Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX who has been engaged in a legal battle over his reneged offer, and subsequent reversal, to buy Twitter, responded to his tweet about Zuckerberg, writing: “Welcome back to Twitter, my friend!”

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Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita (R) tweeted a link to an MSNBC blog post about Ye’s recent controversies, criticizing “the media,” which he said had “gone after Kanye for his new fashion line, his independent thinking & for having opposing thoughts from the norm of Hollywood.” Rokita followed up by saying that his post “was specifically and clearly aimed at the hypocrisy of the media and Hollywood elites, not anything to do with other comments. I have an obvious, clear and substantial Congressional and public record of being 100% supportive of the Jewish community and Israel.”