Please take a minute to thank the Spectator for an excellent article by Anthony Lipmann in the January 22 edition entitled "How I became a Jew".

The need is all the greater because the Zionist Federation is urging its members to complain to the weekly magazine because of Lipmann's empathy with Palestinians and Iraqis.

Please take a minute to thank the Mail on Sunday for an excellent feature in its January 16 edition on life in Palestine by Lauren Booth, Tony Blair's sister in law.

Such articles are not common for the newspaper, and Booth must not be discouraged from expressing such views again, so please make your appreciation known as it will no doubt come under heavy criticism from the usual suspects.