If we had to pick a single word to describe our political class it would be, ‘hypocrisy’. Yesterday we were treated to a particularly stiff example demonstrated by Victorian Labor Premier, Jacinta Allan.

The Premier has decided that the increasingly bizarre singer Kanye West is ‘not welcome’ in Victoria due to his offensive comments.

This isn’t an article in support of Kanye West.

For several years, he has been on a journey of self-sabotage. No one can deny that Kanye West was originally a superstar of the music industry, but lately he has become both a meme and click-bait for the Daily Mail, limping from controversy to depressing controversy.

The 46-year-old Grammy-winning singer was previously married to Kim Kardashian with whom he shares four children. Since then he has changed his name to ‘Ye’ and taken part in a series of strange interviews, awkward fashion choices, religious conversions, and embarrassing comments that are difficult to explain, let alone defend.

Adding to the weirdness, in 2020 he launched an unsuccessful presidential campaign and eventually lost some of his biggest fashion collaborations and partnerships.

At one point, the rapper – wearing a beanie/mask that covered his face – sat down with host of Infowars Alex Jones.

‘I see good things about Hitler … Every human being has something of value that they brought to the table, especially Hitler,’ said Kanye West.

Kanye on Alex Jones:

"Well, I see good things about Hitler also." pic.twitter.com/9zXjtCVqdQ

— Blaze Music (@blazemusicmedia) December 1, 2022

‘I love Jewish people, but I also love Nazis.’

‘Oh man…’ replied Alex Jones. ‘Well, I have to disagree with that. Oh my goodness.’

Later on, Kanye West said, ‘I like Hitler.’

‘…I don’t like Hitler,’ Alex Jones interjected. ‘I know you’re trying to be shocking with that.’

‘I’m not trying to be shocking. I like Hitler. The Holocaust is not what happened, let’s look at the facts of that. And Hitler has a lot of redeeming qualities.’

No doubt these are the comments the Premier of Victoria was alluding to, although Kanye West continues to stringently deny that his remarks are antisemitic in nature. In 2022, he posted an apology for some of these comments on his Instagram.

I sincerely apologise to the Jewish community … It was not my intention to hurt or demean, and I deeply regret any pain I may have caused. I am committed to starting with myself and learning from this experience to ensure greater sensitivity and understanding in the future. Your forgiveness is important to me, and I am committed to making amends and promoting unity.

Kayne West’s interest in touring Australia may possibly relate to his new wife, Melbournian Bianca Censori. She returned to Australia last November for a short visit. The 2025 tour is set to include shows in Melbourne, but for this to take place, Kanye West is going to need a visa.

‘This individual has a long history of not just making offensive comments, but making deeply antisemitic ones as well. That individual and those comments have no place in Victoria,’ said Ms Allan.

‘I don’t think that individual will be particularly welcome either. We are a state that is proud of our great diversity.’

Oh really?

Here is where I have a bone to pick with the Victorian Premier.

I could have sworn that Ms Allan’s virtuous city of Melbourne played host to an extremely vile and overtly antisemitic rally on Australia Day – and pretty much every weekend before that – with pro-Palestinian supporters flooding the streets in their thousands chanting slogans that imply genocide of the Jewish people and the abolition of Israel.

These rallies are deeply antisemitic and contain hundreds, if not thousands of individuals with extreme views.

If anything, Melbourne’s protests, including those from Indigenous and leftwing activists – and especially from the city’s many universities – seem to hold a view of the Jewish community that falls in step with Hamas. The old Marxist class struggle has been re-fashioned into so-called colonial oppression and has then spent time stewing in racism against not only the Jewish people, but Australians of colonial descent.

These protests are supported by elected representatives who sit in Ms Allan’s Parliament. Further, Labor leans on these representatives during election times, courting the ‘Green vote’ in what has often been described as a soft, albeit unofficial, coalition.

Support for these protests and their primary cause of Palestine liberation continues. It was only three days ago that four of Victoria’s Green MPs were kicked out of Parliament after insisting the Labor Party ‘sever ties with Israel’s Defence Ministry’. They held up signs that read, ‘Vic Labor Stop Arming Israel’.

All 4 Greens MP’s have been kicked out of parliament question time today for bringing props into parliament that read “Vic Labor Stop Arming Israel” over this agreement https://t.co/eMMSl5RrfO #springst pic.twitter.com/524KfVDy3E

— Bridget Rollason (@bridgerollo) February 7, 2024

The Federal Greens Leader posted an ad for a ‘Free Palestine’ rally which featured a blank map of the region which, according to the Zionist Federal of Australia, hinted at the end of the Jewish State in accordance with the ‘From the River to the Sea’ chant.

Other Greens members have been forced to apologise for appearing in photos next to protesters holding deeply vile and aggressively antisemitic signs including those that depict throwing the Jewish people ‘in the bin’ as rubbish.

There are so many instances of unacceptable behaviour, including, according to the Financial Review, ‘NSW Greens MP Jenny Leong apologised this week for referring to the “tentacles” of the Jewish Lobby during a speech made in December.’

Other protests in support of Palestine have merged with Indigenous activists. They include smoking ceremonies and the creation of the truly disgusting hybrid chant, ‘From the River to the Sea, always was always will be.’

These protesters even managed to accuse Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of genocide.

‘Albo – shame. Penny – shame. Albanese you can’t hide; we charge you with genocide.’

At no point do these protesters call for the release of hostages, for the terrorist regime of Hamas to resign, or condemn the terror attacks in October that started the war. They never mention Palestine’s position of murdering gay and lesbian citizens, or treating women as property in the most barbaric of ways. Nor have they mentioned that ordinary Palestinian citizens took part in the October terror attacks while thousands cheered as the butchered bodies of murdered women were paraded through the streets. Silent, also, are these protesters on the alleged involvement of (now sacked) UNRWA employees, instead demanding that Australia continue gifting the dubious UN charity millions of Australian tax dollars. By in large, these protesters deny the terror attacks entirely, referring to them as ‘Zionist propaganda’.

Other protesters, including those in Sydney, openly called for the murder of Jews and indicated either that they wanted to ‘gas the Jews’ or find the Jews – depending on the quality of your hearing.

In short, it doesn’t matter what Kanye West has or hasn’t said about the Jewish people – the Premier of Victoria should be much more concerned with the 100s of 1,000s of open antisemites wandering around the streets, waving the national flag of a terror-led nation, intimidating and frightening Australian Jews every other weekend. Jewish people are not safe in Victoria, and one may argue that with the horrific attacks on Australian statues and threats to Cook the Colony, Australians are not safe either.

If only Ms Allan had as much passion for banning these vile antisemitic and anti-Australian protests in the streets of Melbourne as she does for barring Kanye West from the country.

Through their ‘Big Australia’ mass migration plan – which has imported the vast majority of antisemitism – and the left’s ‘long march through the institutions’ turning students into mouthpieces for Hamas – Labor have only themselves to blame for rampant antisemitism on Australian soil.

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