The Imperial War Museum (IWM) in London has apologized after one of its oline archive photograph referred to Jewish World War II fighters as “terrorists”.

The row followed a complaint by the Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) which said the exhibition was “a travesty that will make the IWM complicit in Holocaust revisionism”.

SWC director Shimon Samuels declared: : “Many served in H.M.’s forces and later came to nascent Israel as volunteers to repel British-led Arab invaders bent on completing Hitler’s plan of extermination. Would you malign these loyal British Jewish military with the stigma of ‘terrorism’?”

Visitors to IWM’s online picture archives learned from one image that the Jewish Brigade “was formed in September 1944 and fought in Italy under the British Eighth Army” and that “many of its members went on to join the Haganah and other illegal formations”.

The Museum removed the picture from its website and apologized for its offensive nature.

“We apologize unreservedly,” Bryony Phillips, corporate communications manager for the Museum, said. “This was the historic label we received alongside the photograph, accidentally uploaded in order to give the public access to our comprehensive archives. We have now removed this item and are looking in detail at all other captions.”