David Icke Not Secretly a Conspiracy Theorist

But this popular conspiracy theory is based on false and misleading claims, as several experts told AFP Fact Check. Icke, a former professional football player, claims to have spent 30 years investigating the people and groups who “really control the world”. He has been the subject of several controversies, including for denying the Holocaust.

Conspiracy theorist David Icke has been barred from entering the Netherlands, with officials saying he posed a risk to public order.

Vaccine manufacturers have never claimed their vaccines stop transmission of Covid-19. ... This is not true and there’s plenty of evidence to show how the vaccines do considerably reduce transmission. ... The available Covid-19 vaccines are a type of gene therapy. ... This is not true. None of the vaccines change genetic code or attempt to replace genes. ... A video interview of conspiracy theorist David Icke, posted on Facebook, makes a number of misleading and dangerous claims about Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers, gene therapy and asymptomatic cases of the virus.

Icke has emerged as a professional conspiracy theorist within a global counter-cultural movement that combines New World Order conspiracism, the truther movement and anti-globalisation, with an extraterrestrial conspiracist subculture. There is a strong strain of anti-Semitic conspiracy theorizing ...

David Icke is arguably the UK’s most famous conspiracy theorist and antisemite.

What is documented are Icke’s repeated public assertions about reptilians, elite cabals, and New World Order schemes, his extensive book and online production, and the political and social controversies those claims generate, including links to antisemitic imagery and real-world sanctions ...

David Icke’s claims about the Illuminati and a “new world order” are widely criticized for lacking empirical evidence, relying on symbolic pattern‑matching, and recycling historically antisemitic tropes; critics link his most extravagant elements — such as reptilian shapeshifters ...

Inevitably, conspiracy theorists such as Icke have employed the Protocols to make a whole series of bizarre assertions about the recent Covid pandemic, alleging that ‘global financiers’ have made huge profits out of the ‘vax’ programmes, and that it has all been part of the sinister plot to eventually brainwash everybody and take over the world. Frankly, the fact that David Icke has himself been utilising the basic tenets of the Protocols once again speaks volumes about the man.

The rest of us, Icke says, are “sheeple” who lack the consciousness to see the world for what it is. Which is a struggle of Us vs. Them, where basically anything—fluoridated water, the NSA, Bob Hope, pedophilia—stands in as evidence ...