It’s hard, in 2025, to call out anti-Semitism. You’ll find yourself besieged by digital armies of apologists for bigotry. ‘It’s just criticism of Israel!’, they’ll wail if you express alarm about someone calling the Jewish State a ‘Nazi entity’ or protesters carrying a Jew effigy complete with horns and bloodstained mouth. It’s all the rage these days to see racism everywhere. But anti-Semitism? You spot that at your peril.

How many of those sweaty music fans clocked the horror of what was happening on stage?

Yet surely no one will defend what Primal Scream did at the Roundhouse in Camden on Monday? Surely even those craven excuse-makers for Jew-baiting, the people who always doll up anti-Semitism as ‘anti-Zionism’, will admit this was naked bigotry? For let’s be clear: if you entwine the Star of David with the Nazi swastika to create a set of mad, devilish eyes, then you are being anti-Semitic.

That is allegedly what the old rockers of Primal Scream did this week. At their gig in Camden, as they were performing their ancient hit ‘Swastika Eyes’, the screen behind........

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