Thread by @leekern13

If communal Jewish orgs are serious about fighting antisemitism in Britain, USA or elsewhere, they need to support grassroots activists - including financially - and give them the trust and autonomy to do what they do with immediacy, personality and boots on the ground
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The antisemitic Corbyn movement was defeated in no small part cos of people like @GnasherJew who broke stories that became national news. They also responded immediately to events that became online trends, thus ensuring a narrative pushing back against AS guided the debate
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There are punchy, articulate activists both sides of the pond & I dare say they are more intimately connected to the fast, dirty war of ideas antisemites are waging than those who work at the desks of Jewish communal org. They are a gift. The best of us who should be supported
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The biggest tragedy would be for established Jewish orgs to see these grassroots activists as liabilities, competition, unrefined, whatever. They are actually the greatest resource you should be utilising to energise and turn the tide in the online fight against antisemitism

Other examples of individuals who insanely punched above their weight in the fight against a man who supports Jew killers & who could have become PM were @mishtal & @israel_advocacy. In any other arena, individuals who showed such self-starting verve would be courted like crazy

It’s these sorts of innovative, highly motivated grass roots activists that communal orgs should support. It shouldn’t be such pain and hardship for the best of us to do such an incredible mitzvah for the entire Jewish people, & at such personal cost. It’s madness not to use them

In this respect Jewish orgs need to start seeing themselves as talent agencies. Those talented at fighting AS in this new world are clear to see. Snap them up & help them succeed. But don’t change what u saw that made them so effective. Make them be even MORE what makes them them