Social media influencer Sammy Yahood is known to spread Islamophobic content online.

Australia cancels the visa of an Israeli social media influencer who opposes Islam and says it will not accept tourists to the country Spread hate.

“Spreading hatred is not a good reason to come to Australia,” Australian Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said in a statement on Tuesday. Hours earlier, influencer Sami Yahud announced that his visa had been canceled three hours before his flight from Israel.

People who want to visit Australia should apply for the right visa and come for the right reasons, Burke said in a statement to AFP.

Just hours before his visa was cancelled, Yahud wrote on X: “Islam does not tolerate unbelievers, apostates, women’s rights, children’s rights or gay rights.”

He also called Islam a “disgusting ideology” and an “invader.”

Australia tightened hate crime laws earlier this month in response to a mass shooting at a Jewish celebration in Sydney bondi beachresulting in 15 deaths.

In a recent post, Yahud, who is British and recently became an Israeli citizen, also advocated for the expulsion of U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar, who is Somali-American and Muslim.

In another post, he mocked UNRWA, the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency that coordinates relief efforts for Palestinians and Palestinian refugees in the occupied West Bank, Gaza, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.

Israel begins bulldozer UNRWA opened its headquarters in occupied East Jerusalem last week, a move that was strongly condemned by the world body and Palestinian leaders, who said the razing of the site marked a “barbaric new era” of Israeli authorities’ unbridled flouting of international law.

Despite his Australian visa being cancelled, Yahud said he flew from Israel to Abu Dhabi but was unable to catch a connecting flight to Melbourne.

“I am illegally banned from entering Australia and I will take action,” he wrote on the X.

“This is a story about tyranny, censorship and control,” he added in another post.

Yahud’s visa was reportedly canceled based on the same legislation that has denied visas in the past for spreading hatred.

Australia’s Sky News reported that Minister Burke had previously revoked the visitor visa of Israeli-American activist and tech entrepreneur Hillel Fuld due to his “Islamophobic remarks”, and also revoked the visa of Simcha Rothman, a member of Israel’s far-right Mafdar Religious Zionist party and a member of Netanyahu’s ruling coalition, fearing that his planned speaking tour in the country would “spread division”.

The conservative Australian Jewish Association, which has invited Yahud to speak at events in Sydney and Melbourne, said it “strongly condemns” the visa decision by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s government.