I could understand the outrage over this if they were dancing on the graves at Auschwitz as an act of contempt, but that's so obviously not the intention here. 


There's a difference between victimhood and survivorhood that I think is often overlooked, especially when dealing with large-scale human-inflicted tragedies.  We memorialize the sites of these cataclysmic events solemnly, creating monuments to the dead and telling ourselves we will never forget.  At what point are we giving the perpetrators of horrible acts a victory by failing to reclaim the sites of terrorism and genocide?  Should we be building a memorial at the site of WTC Twin Towers, or should be building new towers at the same site, bigger than before, to send a message that we will not be controlled by acts of terror?

And frankly, who is anyone to tell someone who survived a Nazi death camp that they're being disrespectful of the memory of that?

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