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yep, however this is antisemitic trop, not an antisionist one. The mem shall symbolize judaism accordingly with a hanoukkia, or a least with a golden maghen Dawid; the blue one in a nationalist symbol.
The antisemitism bit is just an additional detail; since Christians and Romans are depicted separately, I think it would be fair to regard the meme itself as discussing responsibility at-the-time.
I think menas was talking about using the country of israel to represent jews in the meme image.
I mean, it represents the provincial Iudeans Pilate accused of being responsible, many of whom were proto-ultranationalists who wanted a 'pure' Jewish country through ethnic cleansing and suppression of minority religions and heresies - like that of Christ. I don't know that representing them as the Jews in general, who even at the time were widely dispersed across the Roman Empire, is more correct than representing them as more equated with modern Israel.
Like I said, the antisemitism bit in the explanation is just an additional detail.