A PHOTO of Jeremy Corbyn posing next to a convicted terrorist has emerged as the Labour leader faces questions over a historic trip to Tunisia.

He is standing close to a former Palestinian militant, Fatima Bernawi, who was given a life sentence for trying to blow up an Israeli cinema.

4 Jeremy Corbyn posing with Fatima Bernawi, who was given a life sentence for trying to blow up an Israeli cinema

The attempted terror attack in 1967 was claimed to have been successful by Bernawi before she died in 2016, as it "generated fear".

Bernawi was protesting a film celebrating the Six-Day War between Israel and Palestine.

But the attempt to blow up the cinema was foiled after a US tourist told an usher two women had left their handbag - which contained the bomb - and the cinema evacuated.

Bernawi, 28 at the time, was sentenced to life but released after 10 years in a prisoner swap.

4 She was protesting a film celebrating the Six-Day War between Israel and Palestine Credit: AB TV

4 Corbyn was pictured next to a convicted terrorist as the Labour leader faces questions over a historic trip to Tunisia Credit: Palestinian Embassy in Tunisia/East Anglia News Service

Mr Corbyn’s spokesman said: "Jeremy has a long and principled record of solidarity with the Palestinian people and engaging with actors in the conflict to support peace and justice in the Middle East."

In the same group photo is the exiled leader of a banned Palestinian group that murdered a British rabbi.

This picture was taken in October 2014 in Tunis, after Mr Corbyn was pictured holding a wreath and standing beside graves of Palestinians linked to the 1972 Munich Massacre and the Black September Terror group.

In that memorial service the Labour leader was pictured next to Maher al-Taher, leader-in-exile of proscribed Palestinian terror organisation the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, at the ceremony in Tunis in October 2014.

4 Jeremy Corbyn is seen holding a wreath as he reportedly stood beside the graves of terrorists who killed Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics Credit: Palestinian Embassy Tunisia

Jeremy Corbyn claims he doesn't 'think' he was involved in wreath ceremony to Munich extremist

In November of that year two of their men killed four rabbis in a Synagogue during morning prayers in Jerusalem.

Mr Corbyn and Mr al-Taher were both invited by the official Palestinian Authority delegation to the cemetery in the Tunisian capital.

After attending a “peace conference” in a five-star hotel, they laid wreaths to the men buried there – including those who masterminded the 1972 Olympics massacre.

The Labour leader has since said he was "unaware" he was sharing a platform with a senior member of a terror group and told Channel 4 News that he laid his wreath “on the graves of all those that have died”, adding: “I’m not apologising for being there at all.”

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A spokesman for Mr Corbyn said: “Jeremy attended the conference convened by the president of Tunisia to support Palestinian rights and to bring together Palestinian factions to unite for a peaceful and just settlement of the Israel-Palestine conflict.

“He is, of course, completely opposed to attacks on civilians.”

The Campaign Against Anti-Semitism referred the case to the Parliamentary watchdog - meaning an inquiry into who paid for Mr Corbyn’s trip could be launched.

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