I would get behind that stance if they didn't, in a sense, take credit for the whole affair. Bolded and italicized for emphasis.
When Pilate saw that he could not prevail at all, but rather that a tumult was rising, he took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this just Person. You see to it. ” And all the people answered and said, “His blood be on us and on our children.”
For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:
Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men
biblically speaking, technically the Jews bullied the Romans into killing Jesus.
I would get behind that stance if they didn't, in a sense, take credit for the whole affair. Bolded and italicized for emphasis.
Matthew 27:24-25 NKJV (context staring verse 15)
indeed, according to a Bible that was assembled by the Romans anyway.
Even ignoring that, its pretty on brand for jews to reject and murder their own prophets
For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews: Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men
---1 Thessalonians 2 14-15