Ew, Jew cooties. The Palestinians wouldn’t let a disco group sing one of their hit songs because it references Psalm 137 and—gasp!—talks about the Jewish history of Israel.
Maizie Williams says Palestinian concert organizers told her not to sing “Rivers of Babylon.” The song’s chorus quotes from the Book of Psalms, referring to the exiled Jewish people’s yearning to return to the land of Israel.
It’s a pretty good song, too.
Of course, the real reason the song was banned is not because there was anything wrong with it. It goes against the Palestinian narrative that there were Jews in Israel thousands of years ago. They want to pretend that isn’t true. There are many news organizations out there who are all too willing to help move along that narrative.