Claim: True: some Jewish authorities pressed for it; not all
CONTEXTTHE ANSWER
True: Nostra Aetate says 'the Jewish authorities and those who followed their lead pressed for the death of Christ'; yet it 'cannot be charged against all the Jews, without distinction, then alive'.
SOURCE
Nostra Aetate (1965), section 4 (vatican.va)
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