Mike Katz

November 25, 2025, 9:31 am

Farage condemned by Jewish Labour peer over ‘no intent’ response to racism allegations

Lord Mike Katz says Farage appears to be saying 'you can racially abuse people without it being hurtful and insulting'

By Lee Harpin

June 16, 2025, 5:49 pm

JLM’s Mike Katz confirms he is standing down as national chair

Demands of new role as government whip in the Lords behind decision to resign from organisation he has chaired since 2019

By Lee Harpin

Lord Katz, holding Siddur passed on to him by his parents, as he is introduced to the Lords

February 11, 2025, 11:32 pm

INTERVIEW: Mike Katz: Becoming a Lord was a bit like praying at synagogue wearing a heavy tallit

The JLM chair tells Jewish News he is 'excited to get cracking' in new role as a Labour peer

By Lee Harpin

Climate action groups have made headlines in recent years

November 14, 2022, 11:33 am

Just Stop Oil angers British Jews over ‘phenomenally bad’ Anne Frank comment

Environmental protest group uses unfortunate analogy prompting online backlash from Jewish commentators over 'insulting' comparison

By Jewish News Reporter

January 7, 2022, 12:35 pm

OPINION: Starmer’s contract with voters is only the start

A poll suggesting 70% of JLM members think Labour is now a 'safe space' for Jews is just getting to base camp. the start of a journey back to respectability, has a long way to go

By Mike Katz

Anneliese Dodds speaking at the Labour Party conference in Brighton.

October 29, 2021, 10:33 am

A year after EHRC, Labour’s chair says it ‘moved decisively to make it safe’

Anneliese Dodds highlighted the antisemitism training sessions which must be taken by members, and the 'radically overhauled independent complaints process'

By Lee Harpin

Mike Katz during a press conference by the Jewish Labour Movement at the offices of Mishcon de Reya in London, following the publication of damming anti-Semitism report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).

October 27, 2021, 5:15 pm

OPINION: A year after the EHRC report we can move on from a dark period – but there’s still work to do

National Chair of the JLM, Mike Katz, says the the community feels safer thanks to the EHRC’s report and Keir Starmer’s unbending commitment to root out antisemitism.

By Mike Katz

(back row left to right) Mike Katz, Ruth Smeeth, Adam Langleben, (front row) Margaret Hodge and Peter Mason, during a press conference by the Jewish Labour Movement at the offices of Mishcon de Reya in London, following the publication of damming anti-Semitism report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).

October 5, 2021, 12:07 pm

Letter from JLM to Momentum expresses ‘dismay’ at EHRC rule-change opposition

Jewish Labour Movement accuses the left-wing group of having a 'transactional' attitude to fighting Jew-hate, promoting factionalism over the party's 'legal and moral duties'

By Lee Harpin

August 26, 2021, 3:45 pm

Jewish News special report, part two: Divided on division

In the final instalment of our deep dive into polarisation across British Jewry, we ask: are we really more divided than ever?

By Stephen Oryszczuk

Labour's Kim Leadbeater after winning the Batley and Spen by-election.

July 2, 2021, 10:10 am

Batley and Spen: Jewish activists help Labour clinch seat by narrow margin

Kim Leadbeater held on to the Yorkshire seat in a bitter contest marred by personal abuse and claims of dirty tricks from alleged supporters of George Galloway

By Lee Harpin

June 15, 2021, 11:53 am

Thousands of Labour members take part in antisemitism awareness training

Party confirms the scheme is its biggest training initiative, with members invited to online sessions by General Secretary David Evans

By Lee Harpin

Sir Keir Starmer (left) alongside former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn (centre)

May 10, 2021, 12:24 pm

OPINION: Starmer must resist calls to go back to bad old ways

National chair of the Jewish Labour Movement, Mike Katz, looks back on a mixed set of election results, and what the party needs to do next

By Mike Katz

Some of the headlines from the first 12 months of Keir Starmer's leadership

April 8, 2021, 11:35 am

Starmer’s report card: One year of Keir

After 12 months of new Labour leadership, community campaigners praise the strides he has taken to win back trust - but stress there is 'considerably more to do'

By Lee Harpin

February 16, 2021, 9:47 am

Left-wing journalist: Antisemitism panel will set back racism fight ‘lightyears’

Anger after Novara Media’s Rivkah Brown brands communal leaders on Labour’s new advisory board 'not anti-racist'

By Josh Salisbury

Lawrie Nerva with wife Ruby, (left) Dame Louise Ellman and Adrian Cohen (Credit: Adrian Cohen)

December 21, 2020, 11:19 am

Keir Starmer leads tributes to veteran activist Lawrie Nerva, who dies aged 98

Party leader says the stalwart of the Jewish Labour Movement was a 'member and activist since the days of Clem Attlee', as communal leaders pay respects to the campaigner

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