{"id":31220,"date":"2025-07-02T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multimetro.hk\/plus\/2025\/07\/02\/australia-says-it-cancelled-kanye-wests-visa-over-heil-hitler-song\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T16:47:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:47:00","slug":"australia-says-it-cancelled-kanye-wests-visa-over-heil-hitler-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimetro.hk\/plus\/2025\/07\/02\/australia-says-it-cancelled-kanye-wests-visa-over-heil-hitler-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia says it cancelled Kanye West&#8217;s visa over &#8216;Heil Hitler&#8217; song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kanye West, also known as Ye, has had his Australian visa cancelled after he released &#8220;Heil Hitler&#8221;, a song promoting Nazism, the country&#8217;s home affairs minister said on Wednesday.<br \/>The U.S. rapper released the song that praised the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler across social media and music streaming platforms in May this year.<br \/>The song came a few months after West made a string of antisemitic posts on X, which included comments such as &#8220;I love Hitler&#8221; 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