Calls to sack GB News presenter over Bill Gates Nazi post
GB News presenter Neil Oliver has previously been condemned by the Board of Deputies for spreading conspiracy theories
Lee Harpin is the Jewish News's political editor
Controversial GB News presenter Neil Oliver is facing calls for the channel’s bosses to sack him after he approvingly shared an image on social media depicting Microsoft founder Bill Gates as a Nazi experimenter alongside the financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The image shows Gates, a frequent target of Covid conspiracy theorists, sporting Nazi symbols including a Swastika and the IG Farben logo that has come to be associated with slave labour practices in the death camps.
Elsewhere in the image, tweeted by Oliver last Friday, is an image of the former US chief medical adviser Dr Anthony Fauci and the World Economic Forum chair Klaus Schwab appear along with satanic imagery including the numerals 666.
Former BBC tech correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones responded to the tweet writing: “Utterly disgraceful – this should be the end of Neil Oliver’s career at GB News and elsewhere.”
Bill Gates: the text book example of the danger posed by rich and powerful people utterly devoid of empathy or care for individual human life. https://t.co/jsCPHE69Ut
— Neil Oliver (@thecoastguy) May 12, 2023
Earlier this year the Board of Deputies and the the all-party parliamentary group against antisemitism had reacted angrily to a previous broadcast by Oliver warned that some segments of GB News risked spreading ideas linked to antisemitism.
The channel had earlier this month been found to have breached broadcasting rules after airing an interview with guest Dr Naomi Wolf who compared the Covid vaccination programme to Nazi Germany.
The latest image shared by Oliver was posted under the name of Liz Churchill who wrote: “Future Generations will know the Villains we had to face to protect them.”
Showing his own support for the sentiment, Oliver wrote:”Bill Gates: the text book example of the danger posed by rich and powerful people utterly devoid of empathy or care for individual human life.”
Broadcaster Matthew Street was among those to express anger at Oliver’s tweet, writing: “Just @GBNews presenter Neil Oliver tweeting an image that seems to make mockery of the Holocaust by depicting Bill Gates as a Nazi experimenter with a swastika and IG Farben logo, which is presumably a reference to slave labour in Auschwitz.”
Street also shared a statement from the person who created the image, who had claimed that Gates is a “eugenicist” who wants to make humans into genetically modified organisms with “gene-editing” chemicals in vaccines.
The Board had complained about GB News in February after Oliver referred to a “silent war” by generations of politicians who were trying to take “total control of the people” and impose a “one-world government”.
The idea echoed a conspiracy theory document named Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars, which featured a long section on the role of the Rothschild banking dynasty which is a common antisemitic trope.
During the same show, one of Oliver’s guests, a man named William Keyte, was introduced as a “constitutional expert”.
In response to Oliver’s latest tweet Dr Kevin Brown, a criminal law reader from Queen’s University Belfast; “What now is the point of @Ofcom when they permit antisemitic conspiracy theories to be promoted on a ‘news’ channel?”
GB News have been contacted for comment.
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