Thread: ‘Lizard Elite’ Conspiracy Theorist Banned from 26 European Countries

The Dutch government has banned the controversial British conspiracy theorist David Icke from entering the Netherlands and basically all of the EU over concerns he poses a threat to public order, officials announced on Thursday.


Icke, a former footballer and sports broadcaster who is one of the world’s most high-profile conspiracy theorists, had been scheduled to speak at a “peace” rally by a conspiracist movement in Amsterdam on Sunday protesting the Ukraine war, the Dutch government and energy prices. Dutch news service RTL Nieuws reported that the decision had been made following consultations between the Dutch immigration service, police and the National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism.

Icke confirmed the ban, posting a scan of a 5-page letter from the Dutch immigration service to his website. The letter stated the entry ban extended to the entire Schengen visa-free area of 26 European countries, for two years. The letter stated that the ban was due to concerns his presence at an Amsterdam rally planned for Sunday could lead to “a disturbance of public order.”

Icke, who since the pandemic has emerged as a key voice in the global COVID conspiracist “freedom” movement, had been scheduled to deliver the keynote speech at a demo organised by Samen Voor Nederland (Together For The Netherlands), a group which emerged in opposition to coronavirus-related restrictions.


Ciaran O’Connor, a senior analyst at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, said the group had become known for “promoting many baseless and false conspiracy theories and claims about the Great Reset, COVID-19 or the invasion of Ukraine.” He said the group regularly promoted far-right politics and conspiracy ideologies, and regularly referred to Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte as a dictator.


The letter from Dutch immigration authorities announcing the ban also referred to the anti-Semitic overtones of Icke’s defining conspiracy ideology – that the world is secretly controlled by a global elite of shape-shifting, child-sacrificing reptilians.

“According to critics, the reptiles are a metaphor for a (partly Jewish) elite that forms an all-powerful secret world government and is active in all ranks of society,” the letter read.

Not all of the elites named by Icke as supposed reptilians are Jewish, such as members of the British royal family, but many are. He has repeatedly insisted he is not anti-Semitic, and claims he is not campaigning against any particular human group, but instead a class of alien-descended reptilians merely posing as humans.


But experts who monitor conspiracy movements say Icke’s ideology strongly echoes centuries-old libels against Jewish people.


They say it’s an ideology that’s found a growing audience since the start of the pandemic, which has led to an explosion in conspiracy beliefs about supposed global elites seeking to bring about a New World Order, most notably the QAnon conspiracy theory, which holds that elites are torturing children to harvest a chemical called adrenochrome from their blood.


Joe Ondrak, head of investigation for Logically, an organisation that combats online misinformation, said that since the pandemic, Icke’s profile was “higher internationally than it ever has been.”


Since the outbreak of COVID, Icke had been “instrumental in setting the scene for the UK conspiracy milieu,” he said, finding a receptive new audience for his narrative of “vaguely-euphemistic antisemitism, global control through fakery, anti-vax, and human enslavement.”

Despite his interviews being taken down from YouTube early in the pandemic, he had carved out a role as a “central node in the global anti-COVID-vaccine, anti-lockdown, and now generally conspiratorial ‘freedom’ network.” Icke regularly spoke at demos across the anti-vax, COVID truther scene; his son, Gareth Icke, has followed in his footsteps, running an online media outlet, Ickonic, which pushes conspiracist narratives.

On Thursday night, Gareth Icke tweeted his disbelief at his father’s entry ban from the Netherlands. “The old man is banned from entering the Netherlands. Zero convictions, zero crimes committed. Banned by the government. Wow.”


But experts said the danger posed by Icke’s conspiracy ideology was clear.


“Given Icke's turn towards various forms of COVID conspiracies since the start of the pandemic, the potential for his claims to have lasting harm in the Netherlands is very real,” said O’Connor.


Ondrak said the ban reflected a growing awareness by governments of the threat posed by volatile conspiracy movements.


“While some conspiracies are harmless and the ability to entertain such beliefs is indicative of a healthy society, Icke’s brand of stealthily antisemitic speculative fiction functions as an easy on-ramp to harder and more extreme views,” he said.

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I've got a very good mate who believes all this. Reckons that Covid is a con (people are actually getting sick cos of 5G) and everything is controlled by lizard people and the WEF. Naturally he's also pro-Putin etc.

United fan though, no doubt.

Originally Posted by cyrille

United fan though, no doubt.

He does have that redeeming feature though, yes.

Although he hasn't been inside OT since the Glazers took over.

Do not ban the lizard elites. Give them more free publicity, enabling real people to point and laugh at them.

Originally Posted by hallelujah

Although he hasn't been inside OT since the Glazers took over.

Bilderberg, Rothschild . . . it's da Joos, innit. Amazing how a few million control the world . . . hopefully he has his tinfoil hat firmly placed on his head.

Thankfully I don't know anyone like that except an old Indian guy at New World supermarket who enjoys telling everyone that covid-19 is a sign of 'el diabolo' . . . weird old guy

I for one welcome our reptilian overlords.

Originally Posted by Takeovers

I for one welcome our reptilian overlords.

I hate them!!
They make this "Chingchok" noise outside my window and wake me up

Originally Posted by panama hat

hopefully he has his tinfoil hat firmly placed on his head.

Oh, he does. Extremely intelligent bloke too, but he makes helge look passive when he is on one. And he is almost always on one about something.

Originally Posted by Takeovers

I for one welcome our reptilian overlords.

You’ve been watching old Star Trek episodes haven’t you? lol

Double post.

They can't be more useless than the Conservative Party.

Why, conveniently, has he been banned now? He has been spouting his reptilian nonsense for upwards of 20 years. Nothing to do with his opposition to the US proxy war on Russia I suppose.

Originally Posted by sabang

Why, conveniently, has he been banned now?

He's been banned previously.

Originally Posted by sabang

Nothing to do with his opposition to the US proxy war on Russia I suppose.

You suppose correctly. Another hero of yours, sabang?

Lizards of the world unite!

Originally Posted by sabang

Why, conveniently, has he been banned now? He has been spouting his reptilian nonsense for upwards of 20 years. Nothing to do with his opposition to the US proxy war on Russia I suppose.

So he's not the only one that believes in retarded conspiracy theories then.

Originally Posted by sabang

Why, conveniently, has he been banned now? He has been spouting his reptilian nonsense for upwards of 20 years. Nothing to do with his opposition to the US proxy war on Russia I suppose.

Because now is when he planned to travel to the Netherlands, now is when he has been banned from entering the Netherlands.

Like...durrrr.

Originally Posted by cyrille

Because now is when he planned to travel to the Netherlands, now is when he has been banned from entering the Netherlands.

Like...durrrr.

You need to explain to sabang that if the guy had wanted to travel last Tuesday he wouldn't have been banned, it wasn't banning season.

It's the timing . . . obviously. He'll be happy with that.

He has travelled to may countries previously, without being banned. I mean who really cares about some fruitcake that thinks we are all ruled by Rothschildian reptiles who hold Satanic orgies with young children? Harmless enough. But speak out against the US proxy war on Russia.... thou shalt not travel.

These proxies you talk about. When did they invade Russia?

I must have missed that bit.

Originally Posted by sabang

I mean who really cares about some fruitcake that thinks we are all ruled by Rothschildian reptiles who hold Satanic orgies with young children?

You do. If it's anti-Jewish you're the man.

I'm only one quarter self hating djoo.