I quite like David Icke and am related to him, according to my Uncle Michael. His mother, Daisy, my paternal grandmother, was an Icke before she wed, so he might have been Mike Icke!
"He's one of us, unfortunately", Mike told me, a couple of dozen years ago when I probed him for ancestral history.
"Whaddya mean?" I demanded. "Icke claims the world is run by extra-dimensional shape-shifting reptilians. His evidence is that he saw Ted Heath's eyes go totally black in a BBC make-up room and he said so in a book that was published well before Heath died, without being sued for libel, so it must be true!"
"Sometimes, lad", my uncle told me, I don't know when you're joking."
Me neither. I am possibly the most facetious person I know. Not taking things too seriously has served me well on this ride we call life and I am not going to get too upset about the state of the world now, despite the ongoing genocide.
As survivors of the Jewish Holocaust might have testified, the last thing they can strip from you as you're being herded into the gas ovens is your ability to see the funny side.
As a matter of fact, laughter is our most potent weapon in the face of tyranny, because it blocks out fear, which is more lethal than carbon monoxide. That's why tyrants invariably try to ban satire.
On Earth as on Arrakis, fear is the mind killer. I saw a bullshit meme about the power of the mind, which suggested that a blindfolded prisoner, condemned to death, had been executed by the mere suggestion that they had been stung by a cobra. I don't believe that fear can kill you, but it can make you pray for death.
Talking of carbon monoxide, which is not actually that lethal, I was privy to a discussion on a Holocaust deniers' web forum about Treblinka, the Nazis' second most prolific death camp, which was liberated by the Red Army, accompanied by their propagandist, a Ukrainian Jew called Vasily Grossman. He wrote one of the first and most compelling accounts of the camps, The Hell Of Treblinka. Deniers point out that Grossman, who grew into a giant of Russian literature, was a novelist who traded in fiction and contend that he made it up. Some people say similar things about David Icke.
My understanding is that Grossman was a great writer who refused to compromise his art despite censure by the Soviet authorities, which began with his participation in the Black Book project organised by the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee to document the crimes of the Holocaust. The Soviet censor first ordered changes in the text to conceal the specifically anti-Jewish character of the Nazi atrocities and then to downplay the role of Ukrainians, lead by Stepan Bandera, who abetted the Nazis to implement their genocidal agenda. The grandchildren of those Ukrainian Nazis continue to suppress Russian culture to this day.
What distinguishes a real writer from a hack is that one has no choice but to tell the truth, even when writing fiction. Grossman did exaggerate the numbers that were slaughtered at Treblinka, but it was an honest mistake. He used a novelist's techniques to tell the story of what happened in the words of survivors and some of the details are so lurid as to defy belief.
The current genocide we are witnessing was predicated upon the most heinous crimes an enemy may be accused of: rape and infanticide. At Treblinka, one huge thug specialized in snatching babies from their mothers' arms and wielding them like a club by their ankles, dashing their brains out against a wall. How horrible, but also how efficient. The concentration camp guard spared the child further suffering while completely crushing its mother's spirit.
Treblinka was a railway junction in the middle of nowhere where transport trains filled with Jews, half-starved and terrified, would disgorge their cargo, to be processed into the smouldering morgue pits. This is a particularly gruesome detail from The Hell of Triblinka which deniers find too macabre to contemplate.
Initially, the carcasses were thrown into a pit, but even with a generous sprinkling of lime, they weren't decomposing quickly enough, so it was decided to incinerate them on a bonfire. That didn't go too well, either, until an SS pyrotechnician designed what was effectively a giant barbecue grill that allowed air to get under the smouldering bodies, which he stacked with the plumper women on top, so that their rendered fat ran down through the fire as fuel.
Fear was the primary weapon used to expedite the gristly process of extermination. Many of those in the transport trains were too weak and scared to survive the journey. The psychological effect of seeing a baby summarily destroyed must have been devastating. We know it is, those of us who can stomach the brutal truth of what's happening in Palestine, because every day on social media we see beheaded babies and we know how gut-wrenching, how disgusting, those images are and the despair they engender.
At Treblinka, the transportees were further frightened, humiliated, stripped naked and herded into gas chambers fed by carbon monoxide from repurposed tractor engines. A cunning Holocaust denier with a degree in mechanical engineering did the maths and contended that the exhaust fumes from those engines was insufficiently toxic to kill all those people. Which only makes it more horrific, does it not, the suggestion that some of those unconscious bodies pulled from the chambers by the Sonderkommando might not have been quite dead yet when they were tossed onto the SS barbie?
Anyway, where was I? Ah, yes, I was saying how unserious and jolly I am! Also that I like David Icke, to whom I am a blood relative.
Unlike Vasily Grossman, David Icke is no literary genius. I am irritated by his ignorance of Soviet literature and insistence that Orwell and Huxley were Old Etonian insiders whose dystopian novels could not have been so prophetic if they weren't privy to the Great Conspiracy. Actually, each accused the other of plagiarising Yevgeny Zamyatin, whose 1921 novel, We, is set in a futuristic police state.
We was the first book to be banned by the Soviet censorship board, but was smuggled to the West where an English edition was published in New York in 1924. Orwell was unable to procure a copy, but borrowed a French translation (Nous Autres) from Gleb Struve, a Russian literary luminary of his acquaitance, and wrote a review of it for the January, 1946, issue of Tribune magazine. In May that year, Orwell relocated to the Hebridean island of Jura, where he eventually completed writing Nineteen Eighty-Four.
A great writer David Icke is not. He may not be familiar with the quote, often attributed to Mark Twain, about taking more time to write less. Icke seems to churn out a book a year and they are door stoppers. I possess a copy of The Trigger from 2019, about 9/11 - 'the lie that changed the world - who really did it and why' - which runs to nearly 900 pages. I may not be the world's most assiduous reader but The Trigger has defeated me more than once. Reaching for it now, it's bookmarked at a chapter beginning, 'we are now starting a journey into the Forbidden Land'. It is page 414!
The Trigger may not be intended to be enjoyed as literature and its index - 'Sabbatian-Frankism' has a column and a half of references - enables one to navigate the text in a non-linear way to extract the meat of this book from the context of Icke's numerous preceding works. But no matter, because I have also heard Icke talk about it a lot. He accepts any invitation to speak and is liable to drone on for hours. Some of what he says, most would find unsayable.
David Icke's fear of social censure was cauterized in a very public humiliation on 29/04/91 when he appeared on Terry Wogan's early evening TV chat show. Icke claimed to be the son of God and became a national laughing stock.
Few people whose minds go immediately to that infamous debacle when they hear his name have seen David Icke's second TV chat with Wogan. Towards the end of his life, in his anecdotage, Sir Terence of Wogan revisited some of his greatest hits, which gave the gracious Irish smoothie an opportunity to apologize and enabled Icke to tell how universal ridicule had affected him.
As Icke told the Daily Mirror after Wogan died, "In many ways that interview was a gift to me. The prison most people live in is what other people think. I look back on it not so much with fondness, but gratitude. It was the making of me in many ways because it freed me to say what I think and write what I think, which from most people’s views are far out things."
That is what I like about David Icke. He speaks and writes about far out things with conviction and is unafraid to say what he believes - or, rather, what his research has lead him to conclude - however apparently preposterous it may sound.
David Icke still talks about a woman who told him she saw the late Queen Mother transform into an twelve foot tall lizard during a Satanic ceremony. The Revelations of a Mother Goddess DVD remains widely available on the internet, despite Arizona Wilder having long ago recanted, changed her name to something less peculiar and disappeared from view.
David Icke believed Ms Wilder when she told him she had been initiated into the Satanic cult by Josef Mengele, the Auschwitz Angel of Death, so I doubt he would have any trouble believing in brutal baby killers and SS BBQ. Indeed, I doubt Icke denies the Holocaust in any detail. Why then, is he reviled as an anti-Semite?
The allegation was explored in 2001 by Jon Ronson in one of his first forays into the field of conspiracy theory, which has proven fertile territory. A quarter century later, Ronson is still working it. Most recently, he lampooned Mikki Willis among others in a BBC podcast series, Things Fell Apart, in which he told 'strange tales from the culture wars'. Willis - whose life was changed by the experience of being a volunteer relief worker in the wreckage of the twin towers on 9/11 - made the Plandemic series,which began by bringing Judy Mikovits to wide attention. Whereas Jon Ronson was once a member of Frank Sidebottom's Oh Blimey Big Band.
The question asked by The Lizards and The Jews is, when David Icke says the world is secretly controlled by twelve foot tall shape-shifting reptiles, does he really mean, 'Jews'?
Looking back, its ironic to see a younger Alex Jones denouncing Icke's lizard talk as the "turd in the punch bowl" of conspiracy theory. These days, Icke denounces Jones for having sold out to MAGA and fallen at the feet of Elon Musk, who has permitted the internet's most banned conspiraloon to revive his career on TwitteX, for which Alex seems cravenly grateful.
It's also instructive to notice the relative power of the Jewish lobby to censor Icke, then and now. 25 years ago in Canada, anti-Icke protests petered out into a pathetic attempt to throw foam pies over him. Now, as documented in a film that's currently streaming on his proprietorial Ickonic platform, Persona Non Grata, Icke is banned from most of the English-speaking world.
Invited to give a 20 minute address to a peace rally in Amsterdam in 2022, he was banned by the Dutch government and by extension throughout the EU. In UK, whenever Icke speaks these days, details of the venue are withheld until the last minute in order to thwart protesters.
So, is David Icke an anti-Semite? He rejects the appellation, correctly, on etymological grounds. Semitic peoples speak a basket of languages emanating from the region we call the Middle East that includes Hebrew but also Arabic. The state of Israel has revived the archaic language of Hebrew in order to strengthen its connection to the territory it occupies.
All Palestinians are Semitic people by the traditional definition and, therefore, the Israeli state is institutionally anti-Semitic, because it systematically discriminates against them.
In the same way that the colonial Zionist entity seeks to eradicate Palestinians from their land, it wishes to expunge them from language and thereby from memory. It has abolished the hyphen from the term, 'anti-Semitism' and coined the neologism, ‘antisemitism’, modifying its meaning to, 'Jew hate'.
Authentically Semitic Jews are a minority in Israel and are treated as inferior because they look like Arabs. DNA tests in Israel are not illegal, but access to them is heavily restricted by a Genetic Information Law that was passed in 2000.
Benjamin Netanyahu is not a Semite but pretends to be one for political purposes. His birth name was Mileikowsky and his father was an Ashkenazi Jew, a secular Zionist from Warsaw, one of the many who fled Europe to build the new state of Israel. He adopted the name, 'Netanyahu' as a propagandist. Benzion Netanyahu was one of the Revisionist Zionists who agitated for the uncompromising doctrine of Greater Israel that is now being implemented by his son.
However, the Zionist entity, in the form of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) came up with a fresh 'working definition of antisemitism' in 2016 that, despite being 'non-legally binding', has been widely adopted: 'Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews'. No doubt David Icke guffawed at that, because “the perception deception” is one of his biggest themes.
Seriously, though, this definition basically says, 'if I suspect you of hatred, you're a hater'. 'Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities... Manifestations might include the targeting of the state of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity.'
Because I object to Israel's colonial occupation of Palestine and its oppression of Palestinians, I have avoided buying Israeli goods all my adult life and supported the BDS movement since its inception. What does that make me?
'However', the working definition continues, 'criticism of Israel similar to that levelled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic.' Presumably, that means it's OK to point out that Israel is an ethno-fascist apartheid state which has ignored literally hundreds of resolutions adopted by various United Nations bodies pertaining to the human rights of the Palestinian people while dozens of other UN resolutions against Israel have been vetoed by the USA.
It is an open secret that Israel has an arsenal of nuclear weapons but, uniquely, is party to no international treaty concerning their use. Is it OK to point out that any other country in that situation would be the target not only of censure, but of swingeing sanctions?
Instead, Israel is the recipient of apparently unlimited amounts of US taxpayers’ money, not least in the form of some of the most terrible weapons that have ever been devised, with which the Islraeli army, having turned Gaza into a wasteland, is now failing to defeat the Palestinian militias.
David Icke's grand conspiracy theory - he insists that, in the end, there is only one - was graphically represented in a mural thrown up on a wall in Brick Lane by a visiting American street artist, MearOne, aka Kalen Ockerman, in October 2012, which he titled, Freedom For Humanity – False Profits.
This artwork depicted a gaggle of fat cats playing Monopoly, the board resting on the backs of the proletariat. It was to became notorious six years after it had been expunged by Tower Hamlets Council when weaponized by the anti-Corbyn faction within the Labour Party. They used Jezza's apparent support for the artist to accuse him of antisemitism. When MearOne had announced on Facebook that his recently-completed mural was to be removed, Corbyn asked, innocently, 'why?'
'You are in good company', Corbyn commented, perhaps assuming the artwork was only about the exploitative nature of capitalism. 'Rockerfeller destroyed Diego Riviera’s mural because it includes a picture of Lenin', he said. JD Rockefeller was one of the 'early turn of the century Robber Barons' depicted by MearOne. The others were Rothschild, Morgan, Carnegie and Warburg, plus Aleister Crowley, 'who was a kind of philosophical guru to the ruling elite of that time and a well-known Satanist', according to the artist, explaining himself on David Icke's website. Since only two of those half dozen were Jews, Corbyn may have missed the subtle antisemitic trope, which was explained in detail by Bob Pitt in a post on Medium.
Lutfur Rahman, the then mayor of Tower Hamlets, stated that, "whether intentional or otherwise, the images of the bankers perpetuate antisemitic propaganda about conspiratorial Jewish domination of financial and political institutions". It would be disingenuous to pretend that one doesn't know what he was talking about. I grew up in a culture in which, 'Jew', was a euphemism for selfish and greedy; it was what we called the kids who didn't want to share.
While working on his piece, MearOne was approached by 'some of the older folk in the community who claimed to be Jewish', asking who these characters were and 'they were aghast at how I could portray someone like Rothschild in such a wicked manner. They expressed to me all of the good deeds Rothschild had done for the Jewish community and the world at large. That’s what they said!'
MearOne used as his 'ideological starting point', the notorious quote attributed to Mayer Amschel Rothschild, founder of the dynasty and, according to David Icke, the Sabbatian-Frankist cult of Zionism, who allegedly said: "Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes the laws".
This is the basis of the Judeo-Masonic conspiracy theory espoused by (among others) David Icke with reference to, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a notorious antisemitic tract that claims Jews had infiltrated Freemasonry and were using that worldwide organisation to progressively assert global control. It has been thoroughly and scholarly debunked, but David Icke is not afraid to endorse its veracity, if not its authenticity.
Bob Pitt quotes from Icke's book, And The Truth Shall Set You Free, in which he describes the Protocols as, 'a quite stunning prophecy of what has happened in the twentieth century in terms of wars and the manipulation I am exposing here. Whoever wrote them sure as heck knew what the game plan was'. David knows that the Protocols is universally regarded as a diabolical hoax and yet he refuses to ignore the fact that it appears to describe the world we are living in, one in which a tiny minority of super rich, power mad oligarchs seek dominion over the rest of us.
For details, I refer you to a TwitteX post from Kim Dotcom, the internet freedom fighter who is now recovering from a stroke. He claimed it 'may be the most important post you’ll ever read because it provides a simple explanation about why our world is being destroyed, by design. I’m not antisemitic or a Nazi. I’m simply a former hacker with great analytical skills who understands what’s happening in the world', he says, before quoting several passages from the Protocols that appear relevant to current events.
According to @KimDotcom, the person responsible for discrediting The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was none other than Allen Dulles. 'The man who raised money from US industrialists to fund Adolf Hitler, his Nazi party and his war. The man who later became the director of the CIA during Kennedy and the head of the Warren commission that investigated the Kennedy assassination.'
Ah yes, the Kennedy Assassination, about which all has recently been revealed. Or has it? Well, it has been revealed that Mike Pence was very keen not to divulge the involvement of Israeli secret services in the historical investigation when Trump released the tranche of documents during his first term.
We've also been reminded of JFK's opposition to Israel's nuclear programme and his sharp exchanges with David Ben-Gurion on the subject, which led to the Israeli Prime Minister's resignation. In April 1963, Kennedy insisted that Israel accept inspections of the Dimona reactor, but the Israelis managed to evade any such inspections and Kennedy was killed in November. Coincidentally, no doubt.
In 2016, MearOne revisited his Brick Lane mural in a print version featuring a revised cast of characters which, in the opinion of Bob Pitt, makes the 'antisemitic element in his conspiracist ideology' more overt than in the original. It similarly features half a dozen Monopolists, behind whom lurk four spectral figures, the banksters’ Illuminati forefathers. First among them is Albert Pike (1809–1891), a prominent Freemason whom David Icke identifies as the author of a letter written in 1871, outlining a plan for three world wars and the eventual establishment of a New World Order.
Alongside Pike is Adam Weishaupt (1748–1830), the infamous founder of the Bavarian Illuminati, plus a brace of Rothchilds: Mayer Carl Freiherr von Rothschild (1820–1886) and Mayer Amschel de Rothschild (1818–1874). These are the architects of the Great Conspiracy that is now being enacted by the players at the table. For added emphasis, the artist posted links on social media to a classic Icke video, his half hour talk on Rothschild Zionism from 2010.
It’s prefaced by David stating his USP: "This might be controversial. I don't give a damn, really, because we have reached the point where we have got to start saying what is and stop running away from it. What I am about to say now, virtually no one else - there are some and some of 'em are characters I wouldn't like to spend an evening with, to be honest. And some are - but most people, the overwhelming majority of people involved in what we call conspiracy research won't touch this subject, right? Well, I'm going to bloody touch it because I'm sick of it and I'm sick of bloody people being frightened and intimidated into not touching it." Right on!
The foreground of MearOne's later version of False Profits features six characters, all of whom were still alive, if barely, at the time it was created. Left to right in the picture, above, they are: David Rockefeller, the American banker who died in 2017, aged 101; Zbigniew Brzezinski, the geo-strategist who wrote The Grand Chessboard (1997) and also died in 2017; bankers Evelyn de Rothschild (d.2022) and his younger brother, Jacob, the 4th Baron Rothschild, (d.2024); George Soros, the billionaire behind Open Society, who is not quite dead yet; and Nicky Oppenheimer, the South African mining magnate and former chairman of De Beers diamonds who is a mere stripling at 79. These men stand accused of implementing the Conspiracy.
'So', in Bob Pitt's critical opinion, 'in the revised version of Ockerman’s mural there are ten figures who represent the forces that are secretly 'controlling global policy and trade, pulling the puppet strings'. Fully half of these individuals are Jews, including four members of the Rothschild family, the fifth being George Soros. (A sixth figure, Nicky Oppenheimer, is of Jewish descent although his grandfather converted to Christianity.) Claims that the Rothschilds and/or Soros control the world behind the scenes are of course a mainstay of antisemitic conspiracy theories.'
According to Icke, continuing his talk in 2010, he calls it, 'Rothschild Zionism' because it was created and is controlled by them. Zionism is not about Jewish people, he declares, but a political philosophy and at its core is a secret society, putting its agents in places of power. Icke contends that the Rothchild dynasty created Israel, paid for its first European emigrants after the War; paid for its Parliament and Supreme Court buildings. "Israel", said Icke, "is not the homeland of Jewish people, it is the fiefdom of the Rothchild dynasty, created out of Rothchild Zionism, a secret society, and Rothchild Zionism has been used, via Israel, to devastate, slaughter, torture an entire nation of human beings while claiming to be against terrorism."
He went on to give the dictionary definition of genocide, contending what was happening in Palestine and Gaza was a textbook example. Fifteen years ago, when Icke was speaking, this might have seemed like hyperbole. But in 2025, following 18 months of systematic destruction and wanton slaughter, livestreamed via social media, it doesn't seem quite so over the top.
We now live in a world in which compassion and reason have been inverted so that outraged humans who march for peace in cities around the world are condemned by mainstream media as terrorist sympathisers. Back when Vasily Grossman was revealing The Hell of Treblinka, few could conceive of such evil. Now, it’s on everyone’s mobile device and no one can say they don’t know.
Icke’s presentation from 2010 proceeds to identify all the Rothschild Zionists in the Obama administration. In the US, it is practically a condition of political office that one must swear fealty to Israel. President Trump is tearing up the US Constitution to deny the First Amendment right of free speech to criticize the Zionist entity. In the UK, our Prime Minister declared his unqualified support for Zionism and continues to provide military support to Israel, even while we witness the daily carnage as Israel acts with apparent impunity, killing and conquering.
The Israeli survivors of the Holocaust wrote the legal definition of genocide and swore, Never Again, but now it seems that a subsequent generation of Zionists has amended that to, 'never again unless we do it'. If it's antisemitic to say so then, like Icke, that's what I am.
Likesay, I am genetically linked to David Icke and, over the next few episodes of my Substack, I intend shamelessly to exploit that tenuous connection in the hope of attracting attention and picking up subscribers. Sign up for free to find out exactly how I am related to David Icke and to what extent I disagree with him!
I plan to reveal the closely-guarded truth behind David's membership of a select echelon within the Icke clan, denoted by the initial, V. As in Victory and Vendetta. I am trying to get my uncle Mike Icke on the blower for more info, but he's in his 90s now and rarely answers the 'phone. Nevertheless, startling information about the D.V.Icke squadron may soon be forthcoming. Stay tuned!