Conspiracy theorist who believes reptiles run the world faces call for his Aussie tour to be scrapped

A famous conspiracy theorist who says we are being secretly ruled by shapeshifting reptiles has hit back at Aussie outrage as he gears up for a tour.

One of the world’s most famous conspiracy theorists — who believes Earth is secretly ruled by a race of shapeshifting reptiles who control human behaviour — is facing calls for his Aussie tour to be scrapped.

David Icke, a British former footballer and BBC broadcaster, is flogging tickets for a speaking tour of Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and Hobart titled Everything You Need to Know and his website states that his visa for the dates has been granted after an anxious wait for his fans.

However, Australian civil rights organisation, the Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC), has blasted the decision from the Department of Home Affairs — saying Mr Icke has been “widely condemned for his long history of propagating anti-Semitic propaganda and of scapegoating Jews”.

However, Mr Icke has hit back — telling news.com.au the anti-Semitism claims against him are “laughable and outrageous”.

David Icke has become one of the world’s most famous conspiracy theorists.

The ADC, headed by chairman Dvir Abramovich, accuses Mr Icke of claiming “Rothschild Zionists”, which include many eminent Jews, secretly dominate the world, that Jews have bankrolled Adolf Hitler and enslaved humanity.

“Australia should not throw open its doors and put out the welcome mat to a hate-preacher who spews anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and myths, and who traffics in bigoted rants,”

Dr Abramovich said.

“This is a man who claims that the Jews funded the Holocaust and who casts doubt on the extermination of six million Jews, who maintains that the world is run by a secret cabal of Jews and who has said that racist far-right groups are fronts for the Jews.”

However Mr Icke told news.com.au the claims couldn’t be further from the truth.

“How can this be anything but nonsense when I won’t even be mentioning Jewish people or Zionism in my talks in Australia?” he said.

“I have been on speaking tours across the country many times since the 1990s with no problem whatsoever and I have never said anything on any of them that could be construed as ‘anti-Semitic’.

“The spiritual philosophy that I talk about says that we are all points of attention within one infinite state of consciousness and that all the labels we give ourselves and are given to us - labels of race, colour, religion, income bracket etc. - are merely transitory experiences and not a reflection of the true ‘I’. How in the name of sanity can anyone with that view of life and reality be considered as ‘racist’?”

The widely-followed conspiracy theorist has more than 560,000 subscribers on YouTube and his recent tweets see him slapping down climate change as a hoax and saying Donald Trump is “owned” by “ultra-Zionists”.

#Climatechange on Earth is 'significantly' impacted by solar activity, profound new study confirms https://t.co/IphhD0vhvp pic.twitter.com/LekDobYJOZ

— David Icke (@davidicke) January 20, 2019

#AIPAC Is a Global Menace https://t.co/DX4Kh8FVmt #Israel pic.twitter.com/hNiqf7Pb4D

— David Icke (@davidicke) January 20, 2019

According to his website, Mr Icke’s Aussie tour is an attempt to “awaken Humanity, in a time when more and more people are beginning to look up and question the World around them”.

It’s not the first time he’s been here.

In 2016, he charged thousands of fans up to $100 a pop for his speaking tour for talks which lasted up to 12 hours.

They covered topics including how September 11 was a set-up and how the moon was being used as a hollowed-out space station.

Before the tour, Mr Icke told news.com.au the attacks on the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers were part of a wider plan to control the public.

“Wherever you look, it doesn’t make sense,” he said. “The story of how those planes were flown and who flew them makes no sense at all.

Mr Icke hit Australia with a controversial tour in 2016.

ADC is asking for his visa to be revoked.

“How those buildings came down makes no sense, either. It’s not just me saying it, it’s experts in those fields saying it.”

He has also written extensively about how reptiles have controlled humankind since ancient times.

According to Mr Icke, our modern-day reptile overlords include Queen Elizabeth, George W. Bush, Henry Kissinger, Bill and Hillary Clinton and Bob Hope — and he even claims that the lizards are behind secret societies like the Freemasons and the Illuminati.

In a trainwreck interview on the Today show before the previous tour, Mr Icke became increasingly frustrated with then hosts Karl Stefanovic and Lisa Wilkinson who tried to wrap their heads around his theories.

After a terse opening exchange with the hosts, Mr Icke lashed out.

“You don’t know what my theories are. You have been briefed this morning by a researcher. You don’t know what my theories are,” he said.

Are there aliens amongst us? 👽 #9Today https://t.co/v6rPVnnG3t

— The Today Show (@TheTodayShow) July 13, 2016

“I’m trying to understand it on behalf of the audience so they can understand it,” Wilkinson countered, still trying to keep the interview on track.

But her co-host, Stefanovic, was clearly unimpressed, making a “this guy’s loco” face directly into the camera.

Jokes aside, the ADC says there is a more sinister theme running through Mr Icke’s work — adding that neo-Nazi movements heaped praise on his theories and lauded him for drawing attention to the “Jewish problem”.

“He also endorses and draws inspiration from the notorious forgery The Protocols of Zions, which influenced Hitler and was exploited by the Nazis to degrade Jews, and who maintains that a Jewish organisation was behind the slave trade,” Dr Abramovich said.

“Icke’s revolting anti-Jewish propaganda and abhorrent rhetoric should not be given a platform.

Mr Icke believes world leaders are part of a shapeshifting reptilian super race. Picture: David Icke/Facebook

“His visit would only bolster extremist sentiment and may give rise to violence. It would also send the wrong signal about our nation, and violate our core values of tolerance, diversity and respect.

“As we witness a significant increase in anti-Semitism and neo-Nazi sentiment in Australia, Icke’s visit poses a significant risk of vilifying the Jewish community and inciting against it.”

The ADC will be writing to Immigration Minister David Coleman asking him to use his powers to revoke Mr Icke’s visa.

However, Mr Icke says the spotlight should on the “Anti-Defamation censorship front that seeks to deny Australians a basic foundation of freedom to hear what they choose to hear and make their own minds up about what they make of it”.

“Any person or organisation that seeks to do what this group is demanding has utter contempt for the freedom of Australians,” he said.

“If the Immigration Minister David Coleman acts on this extraordinary misrepresentation of my views he will reveal that freedom of speech and assembly is over in Australia. We’ll see if he has the backbone and respect for freedom to do the right thing.”