104 Facts About David Icke

David Vaughan Icke is an English conspiracy theorist, author and a former footballer and sports broadcaster.

David Icke has written over 20 books, self-published since the mid-1990s, and spoken in more than 25 countries.

In 1990, Icke visited a psychic who told him he was on Earth for a purpose and would receive messages from the spirit world.

Books David Icke wrote over the next 11 years developed his world view of a New Age conspiracy.

David Icke contends that the universe consists of "vibrational" energy and infinite dimensions sharing the same space.

David Icke argues that there is an inter-dimensional race of reptilian beings, the Archons or Anunnaki, which have hijacked the Earth.

David Icke sees the only way to defeat such "Archontic" influence is for people to wake up to the truth and fill their hearts with love.

Critics have accused David Icke of being antisemitic and a Holocaust denier, due to, among other statements, his endorsement of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, his book And the Truth Shall Set You Free, which "argues that Holocaust denial should be taught in schools," and his identification of the Jewish Rothschild family as reptilians, with his theories of reptilians being alleged to serve as a deliberate "code", something which David Icke has denied.

The middle son of three boys, Icke was born in Leicester General Hospital to Beric Vaughan Icke and Barbara J Cooke, who were married in Leicester in 1951.

Beric David Icke served in the Royal Air Force as a medical orderly during World War II, and after the war became a clerk in the Gents clock factory.

When David Icke was three, around 1955, they moved to the Goodwood estate, one of the council estates the post-war Labour government built.

David Icke wrote in 2003 that he still gets a fright when someone knocks on the door.

David Icke attended Whitehall Infant School, and then Whitehall Junior School.

David Icke has said he made no effort at school, but when he was nine he was chosen for the junior school's third-year football team.

David Icke writes that this was the first time he had succeeded at anything, and he came to see football as his way out of poverty.

David Icke played in goal, which he wrote suited the loner in him and gave him a sense of living on the edge between hero and villain.

David Icke left school at 15 after being talent-spotted by Coventry City, who signed him up in 1967 as their youth team's goalkeeper.

David Icke played for Oxford United's reserve team and Northampton Town, on loan from Coventry.

In 1971, David Icke left home following one of a number of frequent arguments he had started having with his father.

David Icke's father was upset that Icke's arthritis was interfering with his football career.

David Icke moved into a bedsit and worked in a travel agency, travelling to Hereford twice a week in the evenings to play football.

In 1973 David Icke found a job as a reporter with the weekly Leicester Advertiser, through a contact who was a sports editor at the Daily Mail.

David Icke moved on to the Leicester News Agency, did some work for BBC Radio Leicester as its football reporter, then worked his way up through the Loughborough Monitor, the Leicester Mercury and BRMB Radio in Birmingham.

In 1976, David Icke worked for two months in Saudi Arabia, helping with the national football team.

In 1981, David Icke became a sports presenter for the BBC's national programme Newsnight, which had begun the previous year.

David Icke wrote that a new editor arrived in 1983 who appeared not to like him, but he continued working for BBC Sport until 1990, often on bowls and snooker programmes, and at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

David Icke was by then a household name, but has said that a career in television began to lose its appeal to him; he found television workers insecure, shallow and sometimes vicious.

David Icke ultimately paid it, but his announcement that he was willing to go to prison rather than pay prompted the BBC, by charter an impartial public-service broadcaster, to distance itself from him.

David Icke began to engage with alternative medicine and New Age philosophies in the 1980s in an effort to relieve his arthritis, and this encouraged his interest in Green politics.

David Icke joined the Green Party and became a national spokesperson within six months.

David Icke's second book, It Doesn't Have To Be Like This, an outline of his views on the environment, was published in 1989.

David Icke wrote that 1989 was a time of considerable personal despair, and it was during this period that he said he began to feel a presence around him.

David Icke read the book, then wrote to her requesting a consultation about his arthritis.

David Icke had been sent to heal the earth, she said, and would become famous but would face opposition.

David Icke would write five books in three years; in 20 years a new flying machine would allow us to go wherever we wanted and time would have no meaning; and there would be earthquakes in unusual places because the inner earth was being destabilised by having oil taken from under the seabed.

In February 1991, David Icke visited a pre-Inca Sillustani burial ground near Puno, Peru, where he felt drawn to a particular circle of waist-high stones.

David Icke's body shook as though plugged into an electrical socket, he wrote, and new ideas poured into him.

David Icke described it as the kundalini activating his chakras, or energy centres, triggering a higher level of consciousness.

David Icke began to wear only the colour turquoise, often a turquoise shell suit, a colour he saw as a conduit for positive energy.

David Icke started working on his third book, and the first of his New-Age period, The Truth Vibrations.

Shaw changed her name to Mari Shawsun, while David Icke's wife became Michaela, which she said was an aspect of the Archangel Michael.

The relationship with Shaw led to the birth of a daughter in December 1991, although she and David Icke had by then ceased their relationship.

David Icke wrote in 1993 that at Shaw's request he decided not to visit their daughter and had seen her only once.

David Icke's wife gave birth to the couple's second son in November 1992.

In March 1991, David Icke resigned from the Green Party during a party conference, telling them he was about to be at the centre of "tremendous and increasing controversy", and winning a standing ovation from delegates after the announcement.

David Icke told reporters the world was going to end in 1997.

The tabloid press had been running with the story that David Icke was claiming to be the Son of God.

Amid laughter from the audience, David Icke said laughter was the best way to remove negativity.

However, in his autobiography, Mustn't Grumble, Wogan described David Icke as being a "ranting demagogue convinced we were all manipulated sheep".

Love Changes Everything, influenced by the "channelling" work of Deborah Shaw, is a theosophical work about the origin of the planet, in which David Icke writes with admiration about Jesus.

David Icke took both the extraterrestrial angle and the focus on the Protocols from Behold a Pale Horse by Milton William Cooper, who was associated with the American militia movement; chapter 15 of Cooper's book reproduces the Protocols in full.

David Icke adds that the Protocols were not the work of the Jewish people, but of Zionists.

David Icke self-published And the Truth Shall Set You Free and all his subsequent books.

David Icke has held public lectures around the world, and by 2006 had spoken in at least 25 countries.

David Icke spoke for seven hours to 2,500 people at the Brixton Academy, London, in 2008, and the same year addressed the University of Oxford's debating society, the Oxford Union.

David Icke came 12th out of 26 candidates, with 110 votes, resulting in a lost deposit.

In November 2013, David Icke launched an Internet television station, The People's Voice, broadcast from London.

David Icke met his first wife, Linda Atherton, in May 1971 at a dance at the Chesford Grange Hotel near Leamington Spa, Warwickshire.

The relationship with Shaw led to the birth of a daughter in December 1991, although Shaw and David Icke had by then ceased their relationship.

David Icke wrote in 1993 that at Shaw's request he decided not to visit their daughter and had seen her only once.

David Icke combines New Age philosophical concepts about the universe and consciousness with conspiracy theories about public figures being reptilian humanoids and paedophiles.

David Icke argues in favour of reincarnation; a collective consciousness that has intentionality; modal realism ; and the so-called law of attraction.

David Icke believes the universe consists of "vibrational" energy and infinite dimensions sharing the same space, similar to radio frequencies, allowing some individuals to attune their consciousness to different wavelengths.

David Icke stated in an interview with The Guardian that:.

David Icke believes that an inter-dimensional race of reptilian beings called the Archons have hijacked the earth and are stopping humanity from realising its true potential.

David Icke writes in The Biggest Secret, "The Brotherhood which controls the world today is the modern expression of the Babylonian Brotherhood of reptile-Aryan priests and 'royalty".

David Icke believes the only way this "Archontic" influence can be defeated is if people wake up to "the truth" and fill their hearts with love.

David Icke briefly introduced his ideas about ancient astronauts in The Robot's Rebellion, citing Milton William Cooper's Behold a Pale Horse, and expanded it in And the Truth Shall Set You Free, citing Barbara Marciniak's Bringers of the Dawn.

David Icke has said that they came for what he refers to as "mono-atomic gold", which he claims can increase the capacity of the nervous system ten-thousandfold and that after ingesting it, the Anunnaki can process vast amounts of information, speed up trans-dimensional travel, and shapeshift from reptilian to human.

Lewis and Kahn argue that David Icke is using allegory to depict the alienating nature of global capitalism.

David Icke claimed he saw British prime minister Edward Heath's eyes turn entirely "jet black" while the two men waited for a Sky News interview in 1989.

David Icke confirmed to Andrew Neil in May 2016 that he believes the British royal family are shape-shifting lizards.

In 2001, David Icke said Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother was "seriously reptilian".

The Rothschilds, in Icke's opinion, are blood-drinking Satan-worshipers, which Daniel Allington and David Toube argued in 2018 was part of a revival of medieval antisemitic attitudes towards Jews.

The appearance of the 'unseen' in the Middle East 6,000 years ago seems to be no coincidence, and it's little wonder that David Icke's work is so often accused of anti-Semitism.

Critics say that David Icke's reptilians are symbolic representations of Jews, which David Icke called "total friggin' nonsense", adding, "this is not a plot on the world by Jewish people".

David Icke claims the brotherhood's goal, or their "Great Work of Ages", is a microchipped population, a world government, and a global Orwellian fascist state or New World Order, which he claims will be a post-truth era in which freedom of speech is ended.

David Icke suggests that these sacrifices continue to this day.

David Icke refers to this process as "order out of chaos".

David Icke argues that they have to control both sides to ensure the outcome they want.

David Icke believes that US presidents George W Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump are part of a false political divide.

David Icke's solution is peaceful non-compliance, which he believes will disempower "the elite".

The Moon Matrix is introduced in Human Race Get Off Your Knees: The Lion Sleeps No More, in which David Icke suggests that the Earth and the collective human mind are manipulated from the Moon, a spacecraft and inter-dimensional portal the reptilians control.

David Icke has been identified by the Center for Countering Digital Hate as a leading producer of misinformation about COVID-19 as well as anti-Semitic content.

Nick Cohen in The Observer thought David Icke was ambiguous as to whether the phone masts should be left alone.

David Icke made an unsupported claim that Israel was using the crisis "to test its technology" and suggested any attempt to require people to be vaccinated against COVID-19 amounted to "fascism".

On 29 August 2020, David Icke spoke at an anti-lockdown protest in Trafalgar Square, London, organised under the Unite for Freedom banner.

David Icke stated, "This world is controlled by a tiny few people" who "impose their agenda on billions of people".

David Icke told the police who were present at the rally that they were "enforcing fascism that your own children will have to live with" and urged them to "join us and stop serving the psychopaths".

David Icke's audiences hold a wide range of beliefs, uniting individuals, and left and right wing groups; from New Agers, and Ufologists, as well as the far-right Christian Patriot movement, and the neo-Nazi group Combat 18, which supports his writings.

David Icke's work is representative of a major global countercultural trend.

David 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.

However, David Icke has repeatedly denied the accusation that he is an antisemite.

In 2001, when he was questioned by Jon Ronson, David Icke declared that The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is evidence not of a Jewish plot but of a reptilian plot.

Robertson writes that David Icke denounces racism, having called it "the ultimate idiocy".

Immigration Minister David Icke Coleman upheld the complaint made by Dvir Abramovich, the chairman of the Anti-Defamation Commission.

On 4 November 2022, it was reported that David Icke had been banned from entering the Netherlands for two years, after being sent a letter from the Dutch government saying that his presence in the country would pose a risk to public order.

The ban prevents David Icke from entering the EU's visa-free Schengen Area.

David Icke believes the US government carried out the Oklahoma City bombing.

The neo-Nazi terrorist group Combat 18 promoted David Icke's public speaking events in its internal journal Putsch; of one such event, the journal wrote approvingly:.

David Icke began to talk about the big conspiracy by a group of bankers, media moguls, etc.

In 1996 David Icke spoke to a conference in Reno, Nevada, alongside opponents of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, including Kirk Lyons, a lawyer who has represented the Ku Klux Klan.

David Icke has never been a member of any right-wing group, and he has criticised them.

People influenced by David Icke have asked public figures if they are lizards.