Yesterday I went along to a small demonstration outside the Old Bailey in support of members of Palestine Action who are currently in prison. The British state is giving every indication that it is willing to let several unconvicted political prisoners die on hunger strike rather than grant them bail. Not a whisper about this from respectable opinion.

In Israel, government ministers are bragging that they have a hundred doctors who are willing to execute Palestinians and Ben Gvir has produced badges in the shape of a noose to celebrate the fact. Not a whisper from respectable opinion.

In Gaza, children are entering their third year without education and are mostly living in tents. This week the entire homeless population there have been unprotected against torrential rain and continue to be denied access to adequate medical care. Again, silence from respectable opinion.

What has really upset respectable opinion is a brief clip in a video projected at a Primal Scream concert. It is an ironclad rule that anyone who claims to be upset by this is entirely mute on what Israel does to Palestinians.

During their song Swastika Eyes, originally written about Thatcher, they superimposed an image of a swastika combined with the emblem of the Israeli state onto a photo of Netanyahu, a man who like many in his government makes no secret of his view that Palestinians are less than human.

It was not Primal Scream who chose a Jewish religious symbol as the emblem of a colonial, racist state which is openly committed to the eradication of Palestinians. It has been obvious for some time that what has been done to the people of Gaza is at least equal in horror to what was done in the Warsaw Ghetto. The starvation, the destruction of homes, the indiscriminate, deliberate and terroristic murder of civilians are identical.

Primal Scream have been actively supporting the cause of Palestinian liberation for as long as they have been performing. I have seen Palestine Solidarity Campaign stalls at their shows and their public statements have never left any doubt where they stand.

Fascism has never been a uniquely German phenomenon. Anyone watching ICE marauding around American cities, watching Tommy Robinson get 100 000 people onto the streets or listening to Ben Gvir talk about Palestinians knows that it is internationally vibrant. There is a discussion to be had about whether or not Primal Scream should have combined a religious symbol with the swastika. However, the last people to have it with are those who get more upset by a few fleeting images at a concert than by the real world, years long suffering of the Palestinians.