An international Jewish human rights organization harshly criticized CNN’s failure to label Monday’s bus bombing in Jerusalem a terrorist attack.

Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, told The Algemeiner, “There’s no excuse for this; hopefully it’s not part of a pattern. CNN is an important news organization and it owes its readership, the victims and itself to get the story right. I hope it updates this story, as it has done for others in the past, in a timely fashion.”

Cooper was responding to CNN‘s coverage of the bombing of bus number 12 as it drove through Jerusalem’s Talpiot neighborhood, which left at least 21 people wounded, two of them critically. Although initially it was not clear whether the incident was a fire of some sort, Jerusalem Police Chief  Yoram Levy later stated, “There is no doubt that this is a terror attack.”

“Nobody is backtracking anymore,” said Dexter Van Zile, a researcher for the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA). “It’s universally understood that this was a terrorist attack. CNN needs to get on the shtick and change the headline.”

In its coverage of the explosion, CNN referred to it as a “bus fire” and a “bus blast.” It also called the bombing a “deliberate attack” and said, “It’s unclear whether the attack was linked to terror groups.” According to CAMERA, the article was updated Monday afternoon, long after the facts had been established, but the updated version of the story still did not include any mention of terrorism.

Cooper also called on France and the United Nations’ Security Council members to convene a session to specifically condemn Hamas as a terrorist group and “all elements of the Palestinian Authority [that are] validating and promoting terrorism 24/7.”

“Events like today are what’s blocking peace,” Cooper told The Algemeiner. “Terrorism and hatred are what’s blocking peace. We need to finally call out the terrorists for what they are. CNN may be slow on recognizing this as a terrorist attack and the Security Council is a little bit slow for a slower period of time.”

CNN did not immediately respond to The Algemeiner‘s request for a comment.

Meanwhile, Amichai Stein, deputy editor of Israel’s Channel 1, posted a video on Twitter showing Palestinians in the Gaza Strip celebrating the bus attack by handing out candy to drivers — a common practice in the both the Gaza Strip and the Palestinian Authority following major terrorist events against Israelis.