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"Me thinks Dornan doth protest too much." Dornan's grandstanding efforts in Room 518 of the King David hotel in Jerusalem to whitewash his anti-Semitic remarks in Congress are fooling no one. Innocent he is not. Shabby, shabby, tacky, tacky! Dornan is a buffoon, crude, vulgar--a dangerous opportunist. DONNA VINETZ Santa Monica

After reading your newspaper for 10 years, I cancelled my subscription. No longer do I need to be subjected to Conrad's vicious libelous, incendiary anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic cartoons. Pulitzer prizes do not make up for the moral and ethical failure of your newspaper. MIRIAM ROTHSTEIN Irvine

How can "Black Athena" be controversial? Don't we believe in evolution of cultures? The similarities of Athenian Greece to the old Semitic and Egyptian civilizations is obvious. Herodotus thought Grecian civilization arose from Egypt, and he should know. JAMES R. STONE Fresno

Howard Stern seems to me to be an example of a tendency in our culture over the last 10 years or so to indulge once again in the belittling of others so that we might feel superior to ourselves. This expresses itself in the return of racial, homophobic, anti-Semitic and sexist jokes in the name of humor. LINDA CARLSON Los Angeles

Authorities tightened security at Rome's main synagogue after a series of anti-Semitic outbursts alarmed members of Italy's Jewish community, officials said Friday. Five members of a neo-fascist youth group, the Fronte della Gioventu, were arrested Wednesday night after they were found scrawling anti-Semitic graffiti in a public square. Most of it was related to the Israeli crackdown in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip that has left 26 Palestinians dead.