An in-flight map aboard an Air France flight between Los Angeles and Tel Aviv, with a stopover in Paris, omitted to mention Israel while indicating the West Bank and Gaza Strip, according to a passenger who sent a photo to the Facebook page of the pro-Israel organization StandWithUs.

Since the picture was posted, other Facebook members have noticed a similar pattern – their Air France in-flight maps don’t pick up Israel either.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center director for international relations, Shimon Samuels, sent a letter to Air France Chairman and CEO, Frédéric Gagey, noting that “French members of our center have sent us reportedly captured shots from the English and French language of an Air France flight-path, taken last week between New York and Paris, and the locations ‘Israel’ and ‘Tel Aviv’ are glaringly absent.”

The letter continues, “We are asked whether Air France has succumbed to the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) campaign to delegitimize the State of Israel by literally wiping it off the map?”

Air France has since issued an apology, saying they “deeply regret this incident, due to a map scale and display problem which is currently being resolved.”

Samuels argued that “if these allegations are bona fide, I, as a Platinum Flying Blue member who regularly flies the Paris-TelAviv route, am now gravely concerned regarding the implications for pilot error.”

The Centre stressed, “whether these photos have been doctored or whether authentic, we urge Air France to identify those responsible and to take appropriate legal measures against them.”

“The Centre rejects the Air France Facebook 'apology' as feeble and totally inadequate.”

“Major airline flights, on landing, customarily thank the passengers for choosing to fly them. If Air France does not immediately remedy this protest, our constituency will certainly make their choice accordingly,” concluded Samuels.