Kate Shemirani

She describes the COVID-19 pandemic as a "plandemic" and a "scamdemic" and is allegedly reported to have said that the COVID-19 disease doesn't exist,[1] and that the pandemic is a conspiracy to control the masses.[1] She believes that a vaccine for COVID-19 is going to be a "political tool to change people's DNA".[1]

In a video published in Spring of 2020, she said "Just before Christmas we had [been told] … we're all going to die of measles, Now we're suddenly all going to die of coronavirus. I'm not buying any of it… I think it's really important that we don't just believe what the media tell us."[7]

Shemirani has been suspended from Facebook several times for promoting harmful misinformation to her 54,000 followers, including linking 5G to the COVID-19 pandemic.[8] According to Hope Not Hate, who monitor online racism and conspiracy theories, her Facebook page describes the 9/11 attacks as a false flag, Satanic messages in music videos and the organised destruction of the nuclear family.[8] By September 2020, her Facebook page had been removed.[2] She was suspended from Twitter in late October 2020.[9]

Shemirani has been the subject of complaints for likening measures to control the COVID-19 pandemic to Nazi war crimes and the Holocaust. She has referred to the COVID-19 lockdown and the National Health Service (NHS) as "Murder. Genocide. The NHS is the new Auschwitz".[8][3][10] She asked in one post, "When are people going to wake up? "On the cattle truck? Or in the showers?"[11] She believes that the government are behaving like the Nazis in their attempts to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic.[12] She defended her statements by saying:

When I likened this to Auschwitz and the cattle trucks – you tell me the difference?

Because the only time in history I could find where the doctors and nurses were able to end people's lives was the nurses of the Third Reich. The nurses of the Third Reich are here today.

I don't care if they find it offensive. I find it offensive that our elderly have been murdered in care homes.

Stop being a special snowflake and saying you're offended. They are killing our elderly, our most vulnerable.[12]

The Jewish Chronicle investigated Shemirani and found that online she made references to Hitler and the Nazis when describing the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown and the NHS.[13]

Shemirani was a host and speaker at Resist and Act for Freedom, a protest event held at Trafalgar Square on 19 September 2020. The event gathered together protestors with a wide range of grievances relating to face masks, vaccinations, and a host of conspiracy theories.

During her speech, she said that a vaccine for COVID-19 will mean that the government "will be able to look at every aspect of what's going on in our brains" and "not only can they pick it up, they can download into us".[1] She also claimed, "They want you all wearing a mask, there's no science behind that mask. That mask is going to make you sick".[14]

Whilst she was observing police officers amassing at the North West corner of the square, she urged members of the audience to confront the police. Protestors chanting "choose your side" formed a human blockade in order to prevent police actions and initially forced officers to retreat. Thirty protestors were arrested and the police dispersed the protest at approximately 3pm.[15][16] A split in the campaign, with Steele and Shemirani on one side, and Icke and Corbyn on the other side, has been reported.[17]

On 8 December 2020, Shemirani, appeared on Sky News and gave an interview with Alex Rossi and made several unsubstantiated claims. She said, "No vaccine has ever been proven safe and no vaccine has ever been proven effective". Rossi interrupted and replied, "We know that's not true. Millions and millions of lives have been saved by vaccines". Shemirani swiftly replied, "Simply not true". Rossi sharply responded, "They're some of the safest medicines ever invented". That's just nonsense". Shemirani continued with more unsubstantiated claims and said, "There is no evidence that I can see that a pandemic exists. There is no evidence that SARS-CoV-2 has been purified and is unequivocally in existence".[18]

Shemirani has espoused several anti-semitic conspiracy theories. She stated in an interview that her ex-husband had taught her about the Committee of 300, she explained that he gave her "an education in the New World Order, of the illuminati, the top families, who owns what. All the corruption, the murders, I knew all of that. But I never knew it would happen in my lifetime."[5] Originally based on the distortion of a quote by German politician Walther Rathenau in 1909 about around 300 powerful men determining the fate of the world, the belief that the supposed 300 men were all Jewish became dominant. It is viewed as a parallel to the anti-Semitic hoax, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.[5]

Shemirani contends that George Soros is responsible for the Black Lives Matter protests and online she compared him to the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and showed images of Hitler and the Nazi swastika.[3] She believes Soros and Bill Gates are promoting what she thinks is an invented COVID-19 pandemic to their advantage. Shemirani thinks that abortions and Planned Parenthood are responsible for more black deaths than any other cause and that Soros funds the program. She also repeats QAnon conspiracy theories about figures in the US Democratic Party being "globalist", Satanic paedophiles. Shemirani promotes narratives that a kind of universal religious persecution operation exists and she believes that a large-scale conspiracy by the global elite is perpetrating the sexual abuse of children.[3]

She also claimed during a speech, "The biggest cause of death amongst the American Black… African Black American… is abortion! They're killing your babies before they even get out the womb! Who funds that? George Soros Planned Parenthood".[3]

In May, she was interviewed for the American health website Vibe and espoused a conspiracy theory about the marriage of Imran Khan and Jemima Goldsmith. She claimed:

Imran Khan has just accepted lots of money from Bill Gates… he's banking him for all the polio vaccines and everything else.

Imran Khan married Jemina Goldsmith and her father is one of those illuminati, those top families, they are all in bed and toe-sucking with one another.

He's not married to her now – but it doesn't matter. He was cricketer. And now he's the head of the whole of Pakistan, and in bed with Bill Gates. We have to stand up to these people because we far outnumber them".[3]

Shemirani believes in Satanic cults and has tried to link them to various conspiracy theories about COVID-19. In one of her speeches, she claimed:

Christians are being persecuted all over the world" along with Muslims and Asians by "paedophiles who are all in bed with one another" and who "all worship the devil. This is good against evil. They are all Satanic devil worshippers. Go read the New World Order. This is the art of war.[5]