One approach would be to strip the non alpha characters out of the string. Then check if the string is the same as itself reversed (while upper case):
public static boolean isPalindrome(String palindrome) {
StringBuilder sanitisedString = new StringBuilder();
for(char c : palindrome.toCharArray()) {
if(Character.isLetter(c)) {
sanitisedString.append(c);
}
}
return sanitisedString.toString().toUpperCase().equals(sanitisedString.reverse().toString().toUpperCase());
}