McGrath of Harlow wrote, "It seems pretty likely that Sydney Carter would never have come up against the suggestion that Lord of the Dance was anti-semitic, so as to have any reason to specifically refute it...."

This is flatly contradicted at one of the links I posted earlier, where it says,

"In 1996 the General Conference Hymnal Oversight Committee of the Society of Friends decided to include the "Lord of the Dance" in its newly revised hymnal. The decision did not go unnoticed; it caused a remarkable debate in the pages of The Friends Journal. One anguished Quaker wrote a letter decrying the song as "anti-Semitic" and concluding that "[i]t is a sacrilege that 'The Lord of the Dance' has been included in Songs of the Spirit and other Quaker song books. It will be a continuing disgrace and a sin for the Religious Society of Friends to continue to disseminate this song."(6) Whatever might be said about reading anti-Semitic lyrics silently to one's self, the protester recognized that the Society of Friends took on additional responsibilities when they authorized public performances as part of their canon of officially approved materials.

"The Hymnal Oversight Committee understood that the song might be controversial. They had contacted the author, Sydney Carter, and "engaged in discussions with [him] about his song," but Mr. Carter refused to alter the words."