Madam, - Kevin Myers's Irishman's Diary of June 14th reminds us again why he is an outstanding iconoclastic journalist.
His analysis of creeping anti-Semitism in the media exposes the ingenuity of European intellectual culture in pruning away the pre-Holocaust religious and economic roots of anti-Semitism while defiantly retaining racial and political prejudice.
Dislike of Israeli government policies is increasingly conflated with resentment of Jews in the public mind due to precisely the type of caricatures Mr Myers identifies.
In the 1980s, when an UK tabloid ran an anti-Irish caricature advertising a "film" entitled "The Irish - the latest in psychopathic horror", Irish groups were rightly outraged. Irrespective of creed, racial stereotyping is never helpful to promoting dialogue and reconciliation. - Yours, etc,
JOHN HARPUR, Roristown, Trim, Co Meath.