Labour on the gallows

As with Haman, the threat to Jews comes back on its own head

The devastating blow to Labour’s fortunes in December’s election is somewhat reminiscent of the way the Jews of ancient Persia were saved from annihilation through the intervention of Queen Esther. And with the Jewish festival that celebrates this great deliverance on March 9th, it is an appropriate time to reflect on its ongoing lessons – especially in view of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz (January 27th) on the eve of Germany’s humiliating defeat in World War II..

Haman, one of the Persian king’s ministers, was plotting to destroy the Jewish people and had built a gallows on which to hang Esther’s guardian Mordecai. But it came back on his own head when news reached the king, of the latter’s part in thwarting an assassination plot. In the same way, the Labour Party made a rope with which to hang itself, taking sides against the God of Israel through an effective alliance with Middle Eastern terrorist groups committed to wiping the Jewish state off the map while also posing a threat to Britain’s Jewish community.