The Australian government has banned notorious English conspiracy theorist David Icke from entering the country next month for a planned speaking tour.
Among the bizarre claims made by Icke, a former footballer and BBC sports presenter, are that the world is controlled by a cabal of giant shape-shifting reptiles, many of them Jewish, and that a group of elite Jews bankrolled Adolf Hitler and started several wars.
He also tells audiences the September 11 attacks were an inside job organised by "a network that works through government agencies, through organisations like the CIA".
Icke, 66, was due to tour Australia in March, but the government has now cancelled his visa, banning him from entry. It is understood the decision was made within the past 24 hours.
Immigration Minister David Coleman declined to comment.
In a statement, Icke said he was "shocked and appalled to have received the news earlier today that my visa had been revoked just hours before boarding a flight to Australia".
"I have been a victim of a smear campaign from politicians who have been listening to special interest groups attempting to discredit my beliefs, my views and my character by spreading lies," Icke said.
"This knee-jerk reaction to accommodate the people behind this smear campaign has left a sinister mark on Australians, compromising freedom of speech and ideas. This goes further than just me today, but sets a dangerous precedent for citizens who have differing views and are willing to openly express these."
The government has banned a number of controversial people from entering the country in recent years, including WikiLeaks whistleblower Chelsea Manning and Gavin McInnes, the leader of the far right Proud Boys group.
Jewish groups such as the Anti-Defamation Commission had lobbied Mr Coleman to cancel Icke's visa. The organisation's chairman, Dvir Abramovich, congratulated the minister "for heeding our call and declaring in a loud voice that anti-semites and Holocaust deniers will never find a home in Australia". He called it a "defining moment for who we are as a nation".
Icke was due to speak to audiences in Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, Hobart and Sydney next month in a presentation billed as "four hours that will change your life".
In his statement, Icke said Mr Coleman had cited his views on vaccinations and climate change among the reasons his visa had been revoked. He also accused Mr Coleman of caving to pressure from a "libellous" article in The Australian newspaper published on Wednesday.
"This is the creation of a blatantly Orwellian totalitarian state," Icke said.
Josh Burns, Labor's candidate for the federal seat of Macnamara, also lobbied Mr Coleman and said the minister had finally "made the right call and succumbed to pressure".
"Given it is barely a month since we had far-right and neo-Nazi rallies in St Kilda, importing more of this sort of hate is something Australia cannot afford," Mr Burns said.
The Liberal candidate for Macnamara, Kate Ashmor, said she had been "quietly lobbying" Mr Coleman to cancel Icke's visa as his "abhorrent views have no place in Australia". She said the decision was "welcome, and affirms the government's steadfast support for Australia's Jewish community".
The seat of Macnamara, formerly known as Melbourne Ports, is currently held by outgoing Labor MP Michael Danby and has a large Jewish population. It will be a highly contested three-cornered race with the Greens at the May election.It's understandable that the Liberal and Labor candidates for the seat of Macnamara would wish to woo the Jewish vote in the upcoming elections by earning "combat anti-semitism" credit points. I'm sure that the majority of the Jewish residents would be indifferent to David Icke's tour of Australia but of course the impetus came from outside the electorate in the form of the Anti-Defamation Commission. This is a pro-Israel lobby group and it was its influence that caused the Immigration Minister David Coleman to cave in and cancel David Icke's visa. With the likely change of government, there will be a new Immigration Minister shortly but it's unlikely that David Icke will ever be allowed into Australia again.
David Icke is predictably conflated by Josh Burns, the Labor candidate, with the "far-right and neo-Nazi rallies in St. Kilda" of a month ago and, he goes on, "importing more of this sort of hate is something Australia cannot afford". The Immigration Minister, according to David Icke, also mentioned his views on vaccinations and climate change as reasons for the revocation of his visa. In the future, it is likely that high profile foreigners will be denied visas to Australia if they criticise Israel, question vaccinations or express doubts about man-made global warming. Further taboo topics will be added shortly. There's no problem obviously with Professor Dina Porat's visa whose visit is being promoted on the Anti-Defamation Commission's website.
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The pro-Israel lobby would ideally like to make any criticism of the Israeli Government illegal. It would seem that it will soon succeed in achieving that in France. The French President, Immanuel Macron has stated that "France is to recognise anti-Zionism, the denial of the state of Israel, as a form of anti-Semitism". That is quite an achievement. There's more to read about it here.
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| Creepy: Macron and Bibi clasping a glowing globe. |
The photo of Macron and Bibi appears in an article dated 7th June, 2018 that states:
Orb memes and supernatural conspiracies are back with a vengeance after Benjamin Netanyahu and Emmanuel Macron were pictured grasping a strange glowing sphere between them. The bizarre moment comes a year after an uncannily similar photo, featuring US President Donald Trump, Saudi King Salman and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, sparked witchcraft conspiracies across social media. Netanyahu was in Paris to meet French President Macron for discussions about the Iran deal among other issues when he attended a gala in honour of 70 years of the State of Israel. The function, held at the Grand Palais, marked the opening of the Israel-France Cross-Cultural Season and, inexplicably, included a glowing orb-like object which the leaders just had to get their hands on. Unsurprisingly the image of Netanyahu and Macron clasping the orb and staring into its depths has captured the imagination of the Twitterati who appear to be on the lookout for these mystical spheres. It has also revived the earlier popular orb memes and once again aroused conspiracy theories concerning evil forces and demonic rituals. One potential cause of the leaders’ strange stance has already been struck out. The Church of Satan previously clarified that the act of standing around an orb is not actually a “satanic ritual.”
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The two smiling psychopaths in this photo appeared in the following article:
Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’’s crown prince, on Friday defended China’s use of concentration camps for Muslims, saying it was Beijing’s “right”. "China has the right to carry out anti-terrorism and de-extremisation work for its national security,” Prince Mohammed, who has been in China signing multi-million trade deals much to the annoyance of his Western allies, was quoted as saying on Chinese state television. Xi Jinping, China’s leader, told the crown prince the two countries must strengthen international cooperation on de-radicalisation to “prevent the infiltration and spread of extremist thinking”. China has detained an estimated one million Uighur Muslims in concentration camps, where they are undergoing re-education programmes allegedly intended to combat extremism. The Uighur are an ethnic Turkic group that practices Islam and lives in Western China and parts of Central Asia. Beijing has accused the minority in its Western Xinjiang region of supporting terrorism and implemented a surveillance regime. Uighur groups had appealed to Saudi’s powerful young prince to take up their cause, as the ultraconservative kingdom has traditionally been a defender of the rights of Muslims worldwide. But Muslim leaders have so far not broached the issue with China, which has in recent years become an important trading partner with the Middle East.
The Uighurs cannot expect any help from MBS who clearly has other priorities.
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