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===Other responses===
[[Political Research Associates]] has described Icke's politics as "a mishmash of most of the dominant themes of contemporary neofascism, mixed in with a smattering of topics culled from the U.S. militia movement." He opposes [[gun control]], and claims that many [[mass shooting]]s were orchestrated to increase public opposition to guns. He believes the U.S. government carried out the [[Oklahoma City bombing]].<ref name="PRA" /> He endorses or recommends [[Antisemitism|antisemitic]] and [[Far-right politics|far-right]] publications such as ''[[The Spotlight|Spotlight]]'' and ''On Target'', the magazine of the [[White supremacy|white supremacist]] group the "[[British League of Rights]]", and has been closely associated with antisemitic "[[New Age]]" periodicals such as ''[[Nexus (Australian magazine)|Nexus]]'' and ''Rainbow Ark'', a "New Age" magazine which is financed by far-right activists and affiliated with the [[Neo-Nazism|neo-Nazi]] [[National Front (UK)|National Front]].<ref name="from-green-messiah-to-new-age-nazi" /><ref name="sourcewatch-rainbow-ark">{{Cite web |title=Rainbow Ark magazine |url=https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Rainbow_Ark_magazine |publisher=[[Center for Media and Democracy]] |access-date=18 August 2018}}</ref> The neo-Nazi terrorist group Combat 18 promoted Icke's public speaking events in its internal journal ''Putsch''; of one such event, the journal wrote approvingly:{{blockquote|[Icke] spoke of "the sheep" and how the [[Zionist Occupation Government conspiracy theory|Zionist-operated government]], sorry, "[[Illuminati]]", uses them for its own ends. He began to talk about the big conspiracy by a group of bankers, media moguls, etc. – always being clever enough not to mention what all these had in common.<ref name="PRA"/>}}
[[Michael Barkun]] has described Icke's position as New Age [[conspiracism]], writing that Icke is the most fluent of the genre,{{sfn |Barkun |2003 |pp=98, 103ff, 163}} describing his work as "improvisational [[millennialism]]", with an end-of-history scenario involving a final battle between good and evil. Barkun defines improvisational millennialism as an "act of [[bricolage]]": because everything is connected in the conspiracist world view, every source can be mined for links.{{sfn |Barkun |2003 |pp=10–11, 107–108, 184}} Barkun argues that Icke has actively tried to cultivate the [[Radical right (United States)|radical right]]: "There is no fuller explication of [their] beliefs about ruling elites than Icke's." He also notes that Icke regards [[Christian Patriot movement|Christian patriots]] as the only [[Americans]] who understand the "[[New World Order (conspiracy theory)|New World Order]]".{{sfn |Barkun |2003 |pp=106–108}} In 1996 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]].{{sfn |Barkun |2003 |p=106}} Icke has never been a member of any right-wing group, and he has criticised them.{{sfn |Robertson |2016 |pp=150–151}}
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