UN Condemns All Jews For Mordechai Not Bowing To Haman

Geneva – The United nations Security Council issued a condemnation of the Jewish people today, following Mordechai’s refusal to prostrate himself before Haman, another of the King Ahashverosh’s ministers. The resolution called the refusal “a deplorable act of intolerance,” and called on the Jews to withdraw at once from living in the Persian empire.

Resolution 1312, introduced by the delegation from Edom, passed unanimously, with only Macedon abstaining. The Council saw Mordechai’s action as representative of Jews as a whole, and not the actions of an individual, given longstanding Jewish glorification of refusing to bow down to self-aggrandizing potentates.

A similar incident occurred several decades ago, when during the reign of Babylonian emperor Nebuchadnezzar, when three prominent Jews defied a royal edict ordering all men to bow before an idol in the Dura Valley. The king had them cast into a furnace, but, according to royal records, the sentence was not properly carried out.

Perhaps emboldened by this precedent, Mordechai – and in the the Council’s view, the Jews as a whole – has taken to flagrantly remaining upright when Haman walks by, despite King Ahashverosh’s decree that everyone must bow. As in the Nebuchadnezzar precedent, the Council did not offer explanation as to the other 99.99% of Jews who did, in fact, obey the edict.