When one student asked the unidentified driver if Jesus was a Jew, the driver allegedly offered a centuries-old canard about Jewish people’s role in Jesus’ crucifixion that is widely condemned as antiemetic.
“Yes, he was a Jew and basically Jews — his own kind — killed him,” the driver told students, the parent claimed.
“They basically killed him because he said he was the son of God … These were religious leaders who killed him.”
The assertion that Jews killed Jesus has long been shot down by the Catholic Church.
In the Vatican’s “Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions,” it stated the crucifixion of Jesus “cannot be charged against all the Jews, without distinction, then alive, nor against the Jews of today,”
the Anti-Defamation League noted.