Had the Jewish people wished truly to honor the tragedy of the Genocide, they would have abolished the festival of Purim. Purim takes as festive the challenges of exile. It shows the foreign ruler up as a buffoon, susceptible to the wily viceroy, Mordechai, who can manipulate the sovereign to the betterment of the Jewish people. The Genocide showed that model up to be defunct.
Exile is not a light-hearted matter. It is deadly serious. Israel's sons must free themselves of their cavalier and reckless attitude to the shame of diaspora.
Purim, if not abolished, should become a day of mourning, replacing all these minor fast days people no longer comprehend.
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