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The two male attackers, Palestinians from East Jerusalem, killed four rabbis and a police officer before being killed by police. The assault left Rothman in a medically induced coma, and despite many surgeries, he also died nearly a year later.

The atrocity, which seemed designed to strike fear into the hearts of devout Jews, prompted an outpouring of generosity from Toronto’s Jewish community, which raised money for his widow Risa and their large family of ten children, of whom six were still living at home.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed “full responsibility” for “this heroic operation conducted by our heroes,” referring to cousins Uday Abu Jamal, 22, and Ghassan Muhammad Abu Jamal, 32.

In time, that claim of responsibility was called into some doubt, with Israeli authorities suggesting it might have been a lone wolf attack, although the cousins were known to be affiliated with the PFLP. The PFLP, however, never retracted the claim.

“Jeremy Corbyn should absolutely not be associating with men like that. They kill to satisfy their political needs. He needs to come to Israel to see how things really are,” said Brianna Goldberg, widow of one of the murdered rabbis, Avraham Shmuel Goldberg, 68, a British citizen, in a statement to The Times.

The Tunisia trip has caused massive problems for the Labour leader. His party has long been divided by the anti-Semitism question, as Corbyn’s hard-left, anti-Zionist constituency struggles to maintain peace — and mount an effective opposition to the struggling Conservative government — with the broader British working class left wing. Gordon Brown, for example, the last Labour Prime Minister, has said Corbyn’s response to long-standing concerns of anti-Semitism in the party has “got to change.”