Though rare, there were indications prior to late 2007 that Roberts held these views. In a March 2007 column published in The Washington Report on Middle Eastern Affairs, a monthly magazine published by the Washington-based anti-Israel American Educational Trust, he claimed that "fanatical neoconservatives and Israelis are using Bush to commit the United States to a catastrophic course." In another column published in VDare on August 2006, he alleged that "the U.S. media is owned by 5 giant companies in which pro-Zionist Jews have disproportionate influence," and in October 2003 he claimed in The Washington Times that "the neoconservatives who control the Bush presidency" were fostering a plan that would "consign the Palestinians to genocide."