David Vaughan Icke (/ˈdeɪvɪd vɔːn aɪk/; born 29 April 1952) is an English

conspiracy theorist and a former footballer and sports broadcaster.[1][3][4][5][6]

He has written over 20 books and spoken in over 25 countries.[7][8] In 1990, as a
spokesman for the Green Party, he visited a psychic who told him he was on earth
for a purpose and would receive messages from the spirit world.[9] This led him to
state in 1991 he was a "Son of the Godhead"[6] and that the world would soon be
devastated by tidal waves and earthquakes, predictions he repeated on the BBC show
Wogan.[10][11] His appearance led to public ridicule.[12] Books Icke wrote over the
next 11 years developed his world view of New Age conspiracism.[9] His endorsement
of an antisemitic forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, in The Robots'
Rebellion and And the Truth Shall Set You Free led his publisher to stop handling
his books, which became self-published.[13] Icke believes the universe to consist
of "vibrational" energy and infinite dimensions sharing the same space.[14][15][16]
He claims an inter-dimensional race of reptilian beings, the Archons or Anunnaki,
have hijacked the earth and a genetically modified human–Archon hybrid race of
shape-shifting reptilians – the Babylonian Brotherhood, Illuminati or "elite" –
manipulate events to keep humans in fear, so that the Archons can feed off the
resulting "negative energy".[14][17][18][19] He claims many public figures belong
to the Babylonian Brotherhood and propel humanity towards a global fascist state or
New World Order, a post-truth era ending freedom of speech.[9][14][20][21] He sees
the only way to defeat such "Archontic" influence is for people to wake up to the
truth and fill their hearts with love.[14] Critics have accused Icke of being
antisemitic and a Holocaust denier with his theories of reptilians serving as a
deliberate "code".[22][23][24] This Icke denies.[25]