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Icke's ''The Robots' Rebellion'' (1994), a book published by Gateway, attracted allegations that his work was [[Antisemitism|antisemitic]]. According to historian [[Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke]], the book contains "all the familiar beliefs and paranoid clichés" of the US conspiracists and militia.{{sfn|Goodrick-Clarke|2003|p=291}} It claims that a plan for world domination by a shadowy cabal, perhaps extraterrestrial, was laid out in ''[[The Protocols of the Elders of Zion]]'' (c. 1897).
''The Protocols of the Elders of Zion'' is an anti-Semitic [[literary forgery]],<ref name="holocaust-museum-protocols">{{Cite web|url=https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007058|title=Protocols of the Elders of Zion |website=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum|access-date=8 August 2020}}</ref> probably written under the direction of the [[Okhrana|Russian secret police]] in Paris, purporting to reveal a conspiracy by the Jewish people to achieve global domination. It was exposed as a forgery in 1920 by [[Lucien Wolf]] and the following year by [[Philip Graves]] in ''The Times''. Nevertheless, the ''Protocols'' forgery was embraced
Icke took both the extraterrestrial angle and the focus on the ''Protocols'' from ''Behold a Pale Horse'' (1991) by [[Milton William Cooper]], who was associated with the American militia movement; chapter 15 of Cooper's book reproduces the ''Protocols'' in full.{{sfn |Robertson |2016 |p=138}}{{sfn |Goodrick-Clarke |2003}}<ref>For Cooper: Ed Vulliamy, Bruce Dirks, [https://www.theguardian.com/world/1997/nov/03/mcveigh.usa "New trial may solve riddle of Oklahoma bombing"], ''The Guardian'', 3 November 1997.</ref> ''The Robots' Rebellion'' refers repeatedly to the ''Protocols'', calling them the ''Illuminati protocols'', and defining ''Illuminati'' as the "Brotherhood elite at the top of the pyramid of secret societies world-wide". Icke adds that the ''Protocols'' were not the work of the Jewish people, but of [[Zionism|Zionists]].<ref>Icke, ''The Robots' Rebellion'', London: Gateway, 1992, p. 114.</ref><ref name="Honigsbaum">{{Cite news |last=Honigsbaum |first=Mark |url=http://www2.ca.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/orgs/british/combat-18/press/evening-standard.052695 |title=The Dark Side of David Icke |work=Evening Standard |location=London |date=26 May 1995 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990428140350/http://www2.ca.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/orgs/british/combat-18/press/evening-standard.052695 |archive-date=28 April 1999}}</ref>
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