An escalation on an escalation - sure. That doesn't refute the point that the Iranian response is an escalation as opposed to a proportional response. Nobody is saying Israel is innocent here.The escalation was the bombing of the embassy.
Reuters reporting on the day of the attack: "Suspected Israeli warplanes bombed Iran's embassy in Syria on Monday in a strike that Iran said killed seven of its military advisers, including three senior commanders, marking a major escalation in Israel's war with its regional adversaries."
To kill Iranian commanders. That doesn't change the fact that this was a major and reckless escalation of the conflict from Israel. An attack on an embassy is an attack on said country's soil according to international law.
I also think the presumed size of the attack is what people were responding too. It doesn't actually look like this attack is going to be as large as early reports were suggesting so perhaps it won't be an escalation in that sense.