Icke took both the extra-terrestrial 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. "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 Zionists.