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Indeed, they are stunningly offensive. And her millions of fans, including those who don’t care anything about Israel, might be interested to know what they are.

Earlier this year, Walker wrote a post on her personal blog entitled “Human Race Get Off Your Knees: I couldn’t have put it better myself.” Students of conspiracy theories will recognize “Human Race Get Off Your Knees” as the title of a 2010 book by British paranoiac David Icke, a one-time professional soccer player who has spent the last two decades promoting the idea that Planet Earth is secretly controlled by giant inter-dimensional lizards who have taken human form (Queen Elizabeth and Bob Hope being two examples he has supplied), and operate terrestrially through a Dan Brown-esque secret society called “the Babylonian Brotherhood,” whose offshoots include the CIA and Mossad.

‘David Icke reminded me of Malcolm X,’ she adds — especially Malcolm X’s quality of ‘fearlessness’

Yet, according to Ms. Walker, David Icke’s Human Race Get Off Your Knees is “amazing,” “stunning,” “magical,” “profound” and “the ultimate reading adventure.” Indeed, Walker reports, it “was the first time I was able to observe, and mostly imagine and comprehend, the root of the incredible evil that has engulfed our planet.”

“David Icke reminded me of Malcolm X,” she adds — especially Malcolm X’s quality of “fearlessness.”

One of Icke’s theories is that the reptilian invaders (the “Annunaki”) came to Earth to harvest a special type of gold — which apparently can turbocharge their lizard nervous systems by many orders of magnitude. This detail really resonates with Alice Walker, who sees comparisons with Earth’s own colonial history: “They [the lizards] wanted gold and they wanted slaves to mine it for them. Now gosh, who does this remind us of? I only am asking …”