 Jewish Voice for Labour also welcomed the investigation but argued that, without making public the complaints the EHRC received and Labour's initial response, the EHRC have violated the Equality Act 2006 which requires that they specify who is being investigated and "the nature of the unlawful act" they are suspected of committing, as required by its own terms of reference.Signatories to JVL's letter includes human rights lawyer Sir Geoffrey Bindman QC and University of Oxford professor Avi Shlaim.A June 2020 report in "Newsweek" contrasted the EHRC's investigation into anti-semitism in Labour with its decision not to investigate allegations of Islamophobia which were made from within the Conservative Party because "it would not be proportionate to initiate our own investigation".