18 NOVEMBER 2000, Page 48

From Mr Nick Bradbury Sir: Anthony Julius is quite wrong.

Any anti-Israeli reporting in the press is far more likely to reflect the deep-rooted English support for the underdog than it does a culturally conditioned anti- Semitism. If and when we regard the Pales- tinians as the underdog is something decid- ed by the merits of their case, not by race.

Nick Bradbury

Beenham Stocks, Berkshire