Genocide: Massacres, torture, expulsion: Other incidents: Issues regarding Islamophobia and anti-Muslim racism within the Labour Party have been the subject of controversy.
[3] In March 2022, the LMN published a follow up report stating that the issues had gotten worse, specifically referencing the hierarchy of racism that had developed in the party.
[4] The long-awaited Forde Report, written by lawyer Martin Forde in response to the leaked dossier—The work of the Labour Party's Governance and Legal Unit in relation to antisemitism, 2014–2019—was finally released on 19 July 2022,[6] revealing that antisemitism had been used as a factional weapon by opponents, and by supporters, of Corbyn in the Labour Party.
"[7][8][9] It also laid bare how senior Labour staff displayed "deplorably factional and insensitive, and at times discriminatory, attitudes" towards Corbyn and his supporters,[10] and highlighted the hierarchy of racism in the party which ignored Black, Asian, and Muslim people.
[17][18] Shabana Mahmood, Louise Haigh and Wes Streeting spoke up during a meeting of the Shadow Cabinet to warn that Labour risked appearing callous and of losing Muslim votes over the Israel-Hamas war.
[17] The day after the meeting, Starmer wrote a letter to Muslim and Jewish Labour councillers attempting to assure concernes about the conflict.