🧵The ultimate cowardice: @UKLabour are set to abandon the term Islamophobia during Islamophobia Awareness Month abandoning the fight against structural Islamophobia.
Dropping the term is a deliberate move to dismantle the systemic framework for understanding Islamophobia. Here's why it matters 👇
Words shape reality. "Anti-Muslim hate" frames the issue as individual acts of prejudice. "Islamophobia" captures it as a systemic, racialised power structure embedded in our state & institutions.
Labour is choosing to ignore the system. 2/6
This isn't semantics.
It's a deliberate move away from decades of academic work, advocacy, and the LIVED EXPERIENCE of Muslim communities that fought to have their oppression recognised as a form of racism.
Labour is erasing that hard-won political language. 3/6