Conspiracy theorist David Icke claims he is the target of a smear campaign that saw his Australian visa revoked at the eleventh hour.
Icke was due to land in Melbourne on Thursday for a two-week speaking tour, but his visa was revoked by Immigration Minister David Coleman after a campaign by the Anti-Discrimination Commission and internal Liberal party lobbying.
Appearing on Studio 10 on Thursday morning via video link from LA, Icke claimed the Australian government was engaging in Nazi-level forms of censorship.
“Once you start having a government dictate [what information is allowed], you’re in a tyranny, you’re controlling the narrative,” he told the panel.
“In a free society, people have access to all information, then they are free to make their own decisions. We’re going down a very dark, dangerous, Orwellian road.”
Icke’s views include the theory that an extra-terrestrial race of alien people has infiltrated the earth to control humanity, but it’s his theories around Jewish people that prompted a campaign against him.
His views — laid out in his 1995 self-published book, And The Truth Shall Set You Free — have been widely criticised as antisemitic, particularly for his insistence that ‘alternative histories’ around the Holocaust be taught in schools, rather than what he claims is a push to “indoctrinate children with the unchallenged version of events.”
He was repeatedly pushed on Studio 10 to answer definitely whether or not the Holocaust occurred, appearing reluctant to give a straight answer.
Read the article by Alex Bruce-Smith and watch the interview with David Icke on Channel 10 News.