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‘Tyranny’: Bombshell Threat After Visa Axed
Australia cancelled Sammy Yahood's visa citing his anti-Islam posts as hateful, enforcing new hate crime laws after a deadly Bondi Beach attack, officials said.
- Australia cancelled the visa of Israeli influencer Sammy Yahood, and Tony Burke, Australian Minister for Home Affairs, said people should apply for the correct visa as 'spreading hatred is not a good reason to come'.
- The Australian Jewish Association had invited Sammy Yahood to run self-defence sessions in Sydney and Melbourne amid heightened insecurity, despite his repeated anti-Islam posts last year.
- Yahood said Australian officials contacted UAE authorities to block his connecting flight from Abu Dhabi to Melbourne, vowing to 'take action' after being barred.
- The conservative Australian Jewish Association said it strongly condemned Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's government's visa decision and criticised targeting Jewish visitors after revoking visas last year.
- The cancellation relied on legislation used to reject visas on hatred grounds, protecting social cohesion, while Australia tightened hate crime laws this month after the December 14 , and Sammy Yahood posted `This is a story about tyranny, censorship and control`.
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Australia cancels visa of Islamophobic Israeli influencer
Australia has cancelled the visa of an Israeli influencer who campaigns against Islam, saying it will not accept visitors who come to spread hatred. Sammy Yahood, who has commented on social media that Islam is a "disgusting ideology", said Monday his visa was cancelled three hours before his flight departed from Israel. Yahood flew to Abu Dhabi anyway, but was blocked from getting his connecting flight. "This is a story about tyranny, censorshi…
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