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The broadcaster Neil Oliver has said that YouTube blocked a video he tried to post, in which it was claimed that a global and criminal ruling class emerged from the “Jewish mob”.
The former TV historian, still a regular presenter on the right-wing channel GB News, has increasingly been accused of indulging and amplifying conspiracy theories.
Once a presenter on the BBC’s Coast, Oliverhas moved much of his output to YouTube, where he posts weekly interviews or monologues.
Oliver, 57, announced that his most recent video — a discussion with the American writer Whitney Webb about an alleged ruling elite that brings together organised crime, politics and spies — was available on the rival platform Rumble.
On X Oliver billed the video as “the interview with Whitney Webb that YouTube don’t want you to see”. He later posted: “Bless Rumble.”
Oliver and Webb discussed how “organised crime, secret services, corporate power, the deep state … [are] investing massive amounts of money in manipulating us”.
Matthew Sweet, a journalist and cultural historian who has been a longstanding critic of Oliver and GB News, said: “This video violated YouTube community guidelines. It claims a global oligarchy descended from the ‘Jewish mob’ rules the world using false charges of antisemitism to protect it from criticism.
“So yes, if you want antisemitic videos from Oliver you will have to go to Rumble.”
In the interview Oliver asked Webb if there was “a particular moment when our governments and establishments became crime syndicates”.
Webb, in a response she herself later described as a rant, said: “It goes back to the 1920s and 1930s … when a mix of crime syndicates came together. Then during World War Two they formed an alliance with US intelligence.”
She added: “After the war that alliance deepened with the CIA. That crime syndicate was essentially a meeting of the Italian mafia and the Jewish mob.”
In his last YouTube video, Oliver again suggested there was an unaccountable global elite ruling the world, apparently including rival nations such as Russia and America.
He appeared to claim that events such as the recent far-right riots in England were the consequence of a plan by a hidden global elite. He said he had spoken to a lot of people who believed that “a violent civil war was inevitable, that it is only a matter of time, that it is only the way to settle the matter”.
He added that he would prefer that Britain did not burn to the ground, but he said, citing unnamed others, that “the various groups that are bumping shoulders are inherently incompatible, that it is oil and water, they cannot mix. It is going to come down to some kind of knock-down fight after which one group will stand dominant and that the other will be gone, whatever you mean by ‘gone’. What a prospect.”
Oliver, who lives near Stirling with his wife and three children, last year resigned from the prestigious Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland’s national academy, after senior fellows raised concerns about his beliefs.
Academics within the society felt that his scepticism of man-made climate change and the effectiveness of vaccines did not align with its objective to spread scientific knowledge.
Oliver, a former president of the National Trust of Scotland, had been made a fellow because there was a belief he could use his media knowledge to promote learning. His views, however, have become increasingly at odds with those of experts.
He has claimed that Covid lockdown measures were “the biggest mistake in world history” and said he would not allow his children to be vaccinated but rather “cheerfully risk catching Covid”.
He has also appeared to liken messaging over the pandemic to Nazi propaganda. In 2021 he claimed: “In Poland in 1941 there was a propaganda campaign that spread the message that Jews spread typhus, a lethal disease. Blaming an identifiable minority for the spread of disease is a ghost we should have laid to rest long ago.”
In May he retweeted an apparently antisemitic cartoon showing, among others, Bill Gates, Jeffrey Epstein and Anthony Fauci with writing including “New World Order” and “Heil Hydra” as well as illuminati and swastika signs.