People Confuse Me Sometimes

I just read an article that was linked off of www.defectiveyeti.com about the current beliefs of christians; mainly in the US but with some stats about Canadians and the Brits.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040216-113955-2061r.htm

In it, there is one question where they asked people "Who killed Jesus?"

"Who killed Jesus, then?
"The big answer is, we all did," Mr. Gibson said in an ABC interview which aired last night.
The network's poll found some slight differences among respondents when asked about blame for the Crucifixion, however: 12 percent of evangelical Protestants, 11 percent of Protestants and 6 percent of Catholics said today's Jews still are responsible for Jesus' death. "

I don't get this. How can you hold the Jewish people of today accountable for something that was allegedly done almost 2,000 years ago? If this is the way that thinking works, then Jewish people should be able to go up to any German and blame them for the deaths of their ancestors during the Holocaust. Or an African-American could blame even ME for the enslavement of their ancestors. Or somebody from Japan could blame one of us for blowing up their relatives in Hiroshima.

This is ridiculous.