Donuel: "I thought pope John Paul forgave the Jews for killing Christ.
It was very white of him"

He obviosuly hadn't heard that Jesus, his mother, step-father AND the twelve apostles were all Jews as well! He could have been a bit more specific and forgiven the pharisees and their rent-a-mob.

I don't think he personally really held the Jewish people responsible but I suppose what he was really trying to do was finally and officially close the chapter on a rather grey (to dark) area of the Church's history that saw the Jews as being responsible (while ignoring the obvious I stated above). This had been the view from around the time of the first crusades at least when the Crusaders regarded anyone not Christian as fair game. In recent times this stance had been unofficially dropped, but never officially until Pope JP did so.