A French children’s magazine has been pulled from newsstands after admitting a “mistake” in suggesting that Israel is not a real country, according to reports.

The most recent edition of the monthly Youpi magazine, which is aimed at kids ages 5 to 8, includes a map of all the countries in the world, the Israeli Arutz Sheva reported.

“There are 197 countries, like France, Algeria or Germany. There are a few more, but not all other countries in the world agree that they are real countries (for example the State of Israel or North Korea),” the mag reported.

The article sparked a major backlash on social media, with Israeli Ambassador to France Aliza Bin Noun saying she was “shocked” at Youpi’s report, according to i24NEWS of Israel.

“Shocked by this lie taught to children. Such a rhetoric can only encourage anti-Zionism, inseparable from anti-Semitism,” she wrote on Twitter, tagging French President Emmanuel Macron.

Youpi publisher Editions Bayard Jeunesse apologized “to all those who may have been hurt” by the piece.

“This does not mean that Bayard does not recognize the existence of Israel!” it said.

The magazine’s news editor, Bertrand Fichou, also apologized and said his intention wasn’t to challenge the legitimacy of the Jewish state.

“I’ll blame myself for it all my life,” he said.

The president of the Jewish umbrella group Conseil Représentatif des Institutions Juives de France, or CRIF, told i24NEWS that Bayer’s statement reflected “political revisionism.”

“Unintentional or intentional, I do not know. I prefer to think it is unintentional,” Francis Kalifat said. “Israel has been recognized as a sovereign state since 1948 and by the United Nations since 1949.”

Kalifat said he wrote to Bayer on Sunday requesting a correction and “an article in the next issue to explain what is Israel so as to accurately inform” the publication’s impressionable young readers.

B’nai B’rith France chief Serge Dehan also slammed the magazine for “banishing Israel from the nations” of the world, and accused it of “conditioning children to hate Israel,” Arutz Sheva reported.