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Sir: William Dalrymple on Israeli persecu- tion of Christians (If

I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem', 22 October) William Cash on the Jewish Establishment in Hollywood (29 October). What next? A discourse by your esteemed self on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion?

Judging by the second-rate Victorian public-schoolboy xenophobia of your corre- spondent Boris Johnson, nothing will sur- prise us. No doubt his contemptuous description of the egregious Mr Fayed as an 'Egyptian grocer' will have amused Lord Sainsbury, Sir Ian McLaurin and others.

L. Lennard Cohen 20 Old Priory Close, Hamble,

Southampton