Icke since the nineties propounded his theory, according to which the world would be dominated by a small circle of "elected", which he calls "the enlightened", linked to the Protocols of the Savi of Zion, an anti-Semitic text published in the form of a brochure in 1905. David Icke has published fifteen books exposing his views, which are generally considered a set of New Age (despite his denials) political conspiracy and apocalyptic, mixed with what many consider an anti-Semitic vision. Michael Barkun, in his 2003 study on the conspiracy subculture, writes that Icke is "the most fluent of conspiracy authors, and gives his writings a clarity rarely found in such texts. . " The heart of Icke's ideas is the belief that the world is under the control of a secret government. In 1996, in his book ... and the truth will set you free, he claimed that this government was financed by bankers and businessmen like the Rothschilds and Rockefellers, although he later clarified that he considers the Jewish members of the ruling class not "jews" but "lizards". According to the British journalist Simon Jones, Icke stated that: "Ordinary people are mass-induced to believe that the normal cause of world events is the consequences of known political forces, or random and uncontrollable events. However, the history of mankind is manipulated at every level ... Now you may wonder how terrible things these people can get. Icke has the answer. These individuals organize incidents around the world, which then require a response from the public ("something must be done"), and in turn allow these powerful people to do whatever they have wanted to do from the beginning. TO" (Icke statements to Simon Jones) The New Age aspect of Icke's philosophy, Jones wrote, predicts that people live in a "multidimensional consciousness" and that they should abandon the false existence provided by the world government, which will bring the hierarchy to collapse. Icke cites in his works in pa