What a difference a year makes

Mike Katz
4 min readMar 16, 2022

This article first appeared in the Jewish News on 27 October 2021

A year ago on 29 October, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) published its long-awaited report on antisemitism in the Labour Party.

One year on, whilst there’s no resting on laurels, the difference between the Labour of Jeremy Corbyn which the EHRC found had unlawfully discriminated against its Jewish members and Keir Starmer’s Party is like night and day.

JLM’s decision to refer the Party to the EHRC actually came in the summer of 2018. Having…

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Mike Katz

National Chair, Jewish Labour Movement. Member, Labour Party Antisemitism Advisory Board & Daily Mirror Editorial Advisory Panel. Sadly Spursy.