It's another fact, this story, that Christians shy away from, not wanting to be accused of accusing "blood libel"--But we also cannot change what is written.
Not being Catholic, I don't know about the Lentan liturgy. I only know of the Holy Week celebrations in my own Protestant church, which ever assumed unshakeable solidarity with those who brought about the crucifixion.
Original sin, human nature being what it is, I can't be surprised that spite would turn the rituals into persecution. But that doesn't mean that Christians can turn over their worship to the mavens of political correctness.
Of course you can. You have. The KJV translators were hardly what one could call unprejudiced, as is obvious from the results of the translation. And the original selection of Gospels were from a myriad of written versions available. The NT was written by men, and men are fallable, and subject to correction when found to have been hurtfully wrong.
If you can be that selective about what goes into the bible, and that contrived about how it gets translated, it is hardly beyond believing that you could throw out a few incidental references that you know aren't at all likely to have actually occured. The jews of the roman-occupied lands did not betray their potential messiah's: they hid them and supported them at massive cost to themselves, as the Ben Kochba rebellion would soon demonstrate. The story, with the anti-jewish coloring it has, is utterly preposterous, and harmfully incindiary.