The British Museum contested a Telegraph report from this weekend, saying that it had not entirely stripped the word “Palestinian” from its wall texts in response to pressure from a pro-Israel group.

The Telegraph report stated that UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) had written to British Museum director Nicholas Cullinan, claiming that using the word Palestine in its displays of Middle Eastern art “erases historical changes and creates a false impression of continuity. Moreover, the group said, doing so risks “re-framing the origins of the Israelites and Jewish people as erroneously stemming from Palestine.”