5 MARCH 1994, Page 27

Sir: Mr Conrad Black writes: . I have been (falsely)

accused of promoting viru- lent Judaic nationalism in our Israeli news- paper (the Jerusalem Post) . . . '

What's false about the accusation? The Jerusalem Post was once a great paper. It is now one of the most rabid Jewish publica- tions in the English language, so rabid, in fact, that on one memorable occasion Mr Black had to distance himself from his own editor in the columns of his own paper.

Chaim Bermant

18 Hill Rise, London NW11