Another:

If the Jews are blamed for Christ’s crucifixion, shouldn’t they also deserve our prayer for being the instrument of God’s will for our salvation? Without the crucifixion, the Lamb wouldn’t have been sacrificed and the gates of heaven would remain closed. Seems to me, the ultimate sin of deicide had to occur–it had been foretold and foreshadowed hundreds of years before in Isaiah and the Psalms. In all fairness, the thought of a Jew claiming that the awesome God of the Theophany on Mt. Sinai and other OT scenes could possibly be contained in a human form, when the non-Levite, & unpurified Uzzah had been struck dead merely for touching the Ark of the Covenant as he tried to prevent its fall was gut-wrenchingly blasphemous in the extreme, as was the eating of His Flesh and drinking of His Blood. Jesus allowed most of His disciples to walk away when they couldn’t accept that teaching, and even asked Peter and the Apostles if they were going to leave also.
How many Christians now find it hard to believe that He meant what He said in John 6 because it tests the limits of human understanding, or that He meant what He said about divorce, or that life begins at conception? (The command against abortion is found in the Didache, which is an ancient document containing the teachings of the Apostles themselves.)
Secondly, if some Jews, the Sanhedrin in particular, deserve the blame for plotting Christ’s death, they also deserve our abundant gratitude as well. Christ, the apostles, St. Paul, and the original converts to Christianity in Jerusalem were all Jews, and spread the Gospel at the cost of many, if not most of their lives.
As for intergenerational culpability, we Christians committed our own atrocities against the Jews through the ages. It seems to me that every recitation of the Lord’s Prayer should make us eager to forgive and forget them, just as we need and desire God’s forgiveness!
Christians are the heirs of the Jews, grafted onto the vine of which we are now also the branches–the vine which is God and whose branches are God’s Chosen people.