Here's what really happened. Kennedy is not a political sophisticate. Friends say he probably thinks Syria is an island off Italy. Some hours after the successful concert, he took a call from an acquaintance — a pro-PSC Israeli, I gather — and blearily replied to a few pointed questions in his familiar rambling stream of consciousness. 

Barely were his quotes posted online than his personal manager, Terri Robson, got in touch. Ms Robson issued a rejoinder on my Slipped Disc site, affirming that Kennedy had been formally reminded before the concert that any political outburst he might make would be taken off air. Her implication was that her artist had no cause to complain of censorship when he had knowingly consented to the conditions of performance. It was, as these things go, a pretty public rebuke from a highly experienced manager.

Ms Robson went on to say: "The BBC welcomed the Palestine Strings (from the Edward Said University) to its Proms platform with open arms and the performance was extraordinary. These amazing young classical musicians presented a very positive message about their culture on a world stage they could previously have only dreamt of. Some of the political agendas currently doing the rounds serve only to overshadow this positive message, which is most unfortunate."

And that terse note of regret, more than any of the transient media chatter, put the lid on a notable fiasco for the PSC mob. Nigel Kennedy had done well to win an opening for his Palestine protégés, only for a bunch of self-important activists to smash the window to smithereens.