Albanese's Tough on Anti-Semitism Rhetoric Rings Hollow
Anthony Albanese has taken a victory lap for safeguarding Australia from the greatest menace to Jewish safety in the southern hemisphere: Kanye West.
In a press conference brimming with self-congratulation, the Prime Minister proudly declared that denying a visa to Kanye West - rapper, fashion icon, and part-time philosopher of incoherence - was proof of his government's robust commitment to keeping antisemites out of the country.
The rationale?
Kanye recently released a track called Heil Hitler.
Yes, it’s a title that sounds about as subtle as a jackboot in a synagogue.
But for those of us who bother to read lyrics before setting fire to effigies, the song doesn’t glorify Hitler at all.
Quite the opposite.
West, in his usual unhinged style, compares himself to history’s most reviled figure to highlight just how low he himself has sunk.
He laments his drug addiction, self-hatred, and moral decay.
It’s less “Yay for Hitler” and more “I’m so far gone, I might as well be Hitler.”
In other words, it's not antisemitism. It's self-loathing with a bassline.
But in the spirit of 2025 Australia, where context is racist, and nuance is an alt-right dog whistle, the bureaucrats at Home Affairs went full Braveheart, ensuring not one Yeezy made it across the border.
Albanese beamed like a man who’d just personally tackled Goebbels at the airport.
And yet the Prime Minister’s tough-on-antisemitism stance evaporated the moment someone asked him if his policy extended to people who say the Jewish state of Israel should not exist.
Cue the spin cycle …
"We have our system with our security clearances.
“We examine if someone is an appropriate person to visit Australia. We keep Australia safe, that is what we do.”
Huh?
Translation …
If you’re an American rapper making a tortured metaphor about personal despair, you’re banned. But if you’re a radical ideologue who thinks the world’s only Jewish nation should be wiped off the map, well, let’s not be too hasty.
It’s a strange standard of antisemitism, where metaphorical self-damnation is more offensive than literal calls for the annihilation of the Jewish homeland.
But then, this is the same government that thinks misgendering someone on Twitter is a greater threat than Hezbollah flags on Australian streets.
In the end, Kanye West may be barred from setting foot in Australia, but those who chant “From the river to the sea” can still book a return ticket.
The Albanese Government is a cruel joke.
It’s taken 21 months (since Oct 8, 2023, steps of Syd Opera House) for our Labor govt to feel emboldened enough to stand up & say what most of us knew to be the right thing at the time. They have let the scourge of anti-semitism fester, gain momentum & infiltrate the lives of innocent Australians whilst pro-pally/anti-israel/anti-jewish activists propagated their hate-filled rhetoric into our streets, schools, universities & society. Internationally they backed UN & ICC resolutions against Israel, refused to visit Israel, refused to meet with Israeli officials, refused to visit the attacked sites in Israel, refused visas to Israelis & let in thousands of Gazan “refugees” when no neighboring Arab states would take any. Forgive me, but Albo & co have a lot of territory to claw back &, in my mind, it’s their actions, not words, which will give their latest statements legitimacy. Until then, this Labor govt still does not speak for, nor does it represent, me.
"We have our system with our security clearances.
“We examine if someone is an appropriate person to visit Australia. We keep Australia safe, that is what we do.”
Oooohhh! I just love the feeling of Peace and Security I get from that statement from our Chinese Ambassador to Australia! Make no mistakes friends and comrades, "The country's in the very best of hands.." we are in the Twilight Zone! Our Enemy is now our friend and so there is no need to spend all those tax dollars on defence because Uncle Sam won't attack us, and Uncle Xi has too much invested in us to blast us off the map.
So the Ambassador, Ho Chi Albo, has put us into the Panda Bear Hug and we won't have anyone from Western Democracies allowed over the Yellow River!
My home among the gum trees, is fading and being replaced by acres of bamboo shoots, and The Australian Emblem now sports a Panda up a gum tree, and the Southern Cross configured in a different pattern!
SIGH!