Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 05/09/2026The Post catalogued every reason people are angry at Stella Lefty. Not one word about the antisemitism. She’s hiding that she’s Jewish. Nepo jew. Israeli industry plant. Her nose. Henry Ford. Every reason on that list comes from her life. The one they left out came from finding out she’s Jewish. 120
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 01/09/2026Noah Kahan has no billionaire father and isn't anybody's nepo baby. He turned up in the same threads anyway. They heard a Jewish name and put a Nazi next to it. That's the whole joke. If this were about a rich man's daughter, it would have stopped there.marcbroklawski.substack.comShe Wrote a Song About BostonOne artist, one month, and the distance between a nepo baby joke and Henry Ford. 000
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 31/08/2026A singer posted a photo of herself in a record store. Jazz bins, tongue out at the camera. One of the most-liked comments underneath was a shout-out to the IDF. There is nothing about Israel in that photograph. I spent a month reading what came next.marcbroklawski.substack.comShe Wrote a Song About BostonOne artist, one month, and the distance between a nepo baby joke and Henry Ford. 000
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 02/06/2026"A good heart, or a good enemy. You're choosing one. We all are." The piece this line came from, written after my best friend's father's funeral.substack.comHe Never Hung UpMy best friend's father died this week. The rabbi asked how we want to be remembered, and I can't stop thinking about who we're forgetting how to love. 000
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 31/05/2026The rabbi asked how we want to be remembered. The old answer was "a good heart." I've been chewing on that since my best friend's dad's funeral on Friday, against everything happening right now. New piece 👇🏻marcbroklawski.substack.comHe Never Hung UpMy best friend's father died this week. The rabbi asked how we want to be remembered, and I can't stop thinking about who we're forgetting how to love. 020
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 31/05/2026My best friend's dad stayed on FaceTime for twenty minutes after his 4-year-old grandson wandered off. He knew the boy would come back. His funeral was Friday. I wrote about what he understood that the rest of us are forgetting.marcbroklawski.substack.comHe Never Hung UpMy best friend's father died this week. The rabbi asked how we want to be remembered, and I can't stop thinking about who we're forgetting how to love. 011
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 26/05/2026Game 4 in Cleveland with the boys. Sweep. 130-93. Brunson MVP. Clyde next to him. First time witnessing this live. Got to share it with my sons. Worth every dollar. Dreamed of this since the Starks Dunk hung over my bed as a kid. Four more wins. 🟠🔵 110
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 23/05/2026JAHM feels heavier this year. Our community is tired. We’re grieving. We’re watching antisemitism show up in places we never thought we’d see it. Grateful to have a Governor who sees it too, and who’s willing to say so plainly. Jewish Virginians are safer when our leaders refuse to look away. 001
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 23/05/2026Did someone say road trip? Let’s go Knicks! 🏀⛹🏼♂️ 120
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 20/05/2026🧵 1/ There's a Jewish teaching on my mind this week. Lo tirah. Don't look away. A Texas Democrat running for Congress is openly talking about putting Jews in camps. Of course, Monique Alcalá was one of the first voices calling on the TDP to disavow her. That's exactly who she is. 100
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 20/05/2026Just walked out of a meeting with @mcclellan.house.gov on the Jewish American Security Act. She didn’t watch the clock. She asked real questions. She’d done her homework. I walked in hopeful. I walked out grateful. She gets it. @jfederations.bsky.social @jcrcgw.bsky.social 021
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 19/05/2026Honored to spend time with Senator @senwarner.bsky.social today. We walked through the Jewish American Security Act, full NSGP funding, and the personnel cap reform. He has been a partner for Virginia’s Jewish community for years. Grateful for his time and attention. Our safety is not optional. 011
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 19/05/2026Thank you to @repvindman.bsky.social for listening this morning. Two weeks ago, someone painted swastikas at Stafford High School. Walls don’t write themselves. He learned that on a phone. The Jewish American Security Act would make the platforms show their work. @jfederations.bsky.social 031
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 19/05/2026On Capitol Hill this morning with the Virginia delegation at the Jewish Federations fly-in. Two percent of the country. Seventy percent of the religiously motivated FBI hate crime targets. The threat is not a statistic. It's a forecast. Our safety is not optional. Our security is not negotiable. 000
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 19/05/2026"We have taught a generation about Jewish death and forgotten to teach them about Jewish life." From a piece I published last night on what Holocaust education isn't doing, and what Virginia law already requires us to add. 🔗 to article in comments. 100
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 19/05/2026Holocaust education is necessary. It is not sufficient. A new piece on what we're still leaving out of the conversation about K-12 antisemitism, and what Virginia law actually requires us to do.marcbroklawski.substack.comThey Took the Class. The Swastika Showed Up Anyway.Virginia has required Holocaust education in its schools since 2009. A bathroom wall at Stafford High School this month says we still have work to do. 000
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 16/05/2026A congressman wants a Virginia state senator denaturalized and deported over a bill he sponsored. Jews know this move. Your citizenship is conditional on the right opinions. Pointed at one community today. Another tomorrow. Name it. 000
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 16/05/2026Abraham Foxman spent fifty years asking American institutions to name antisemitism by name. He died May 10. Two days later, the Stafford County School Board met to address the antisemitic graffiti at Stafford High School. The Chair listed it. She did not name it. I wrote about it.open.substack.comA List Is Not a NameA school board chair, an antisemitic post, and sixty-seven days of silence. 000
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 15/05/2026🧵 1/ This Tuesday, the Stafford County School Board met for the first time since antisemitic graffiti was found at Stafford High School on May 5. Three people on the dais addressed it. Each said something different. One of them was the Chair.open.substack.comA List Is Not a NameA school board chair, an antisemitic post, and sixty-seven days of silence. 100
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 14/05/2026🧵1/ Hartwood District School Board Member Shannon Fingerholz addressed the May 5 antisemitic graffiti at Stafford High during her open remarks at Tuesday's board meeting. 101
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 14/05/2026🧵1/ Three members of the Davis family addressed the Stafford County School Board Tuesday on the May 5 antisemitic graffiti at Stafford High: Alfonso L. Davis Sr., Dr. Pilar Davis, and Alfonso Davis. 110
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 14/05/2026🧵1/ Stafford Superintendent Dr. Daniel W. Smith addressed the May 5 antisemitic graffiti at Stafford High at Tuesday's board meeting. He named antisemitism. He spoke to Jewish students and families directly. 100
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 14/05/2026🧵1/ March 9, 2026: ADL, JCRC of Greater Washington, and AJC publicly named Stafford School Board Chair Dr. Elizabeth Warner for trafficking in textbook antisemitic tropes. Two months later. No retraction. No apology. No response. 111
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 11/05/2026Three Stafford County Supervisors have now publicly addressed the antisemitic graffiti at Stafford HS: Maya Guy, Darrell English, Crystal Vanuch. The School Board, as a body and as individuals, has said nothing. Showing up shouldn’t be remarkable. It’s still rare enough to be worth naming. 🙏 000
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 11/05/2026Stafford Supervisor Maya Guy is the only sitting BOS member to publicly address the antisemitic graffiti at Stafford HS. She named it. She named Jewish American Heritage Month. She told Jewish students they are seen. Showing up shouldn't be remarkable. Right now, it is. Thank you, Supervisor Guy. 010
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 10/05/2026Abe Foxman is gone. Three years ago at a Jewish American Heritage Month event, I got to meet him. A hidden child of the Shoah who spent six decades refusing to look away from antisemitism. Left, right, or center. The line he held is ours to hold now. זיכרונו לברכה 010
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 09/05/2026🧵 1/ This morning, the @stafforddems.bsky.social voted to condemn the antisemitic and white supremacist graffiti found at Stafford High School on May 5, and to reject all forms of antisemitism, including antisemitic conspiracy theories about Jewish power, control, or influence. 100
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 09/05/2026That’s the face of a man who just realized the toilet paper roll was empty after he sat down. 🤣 000
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 08/05/2026🧵 1/ Students at Stafford High School walked into a bathroom this week and saw swastikas, “Kill the Jews,” Hitler’s birthday written out as a date, and a school shooting threat dated May 20. They also saw a verse from a Wehrmacht marching song. Written in German. 101
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 04/04/2026Mark Moran's response to "You taking jew money?" was "No." Not "that's antisemitic." Just "No." Then he said he won't take "Arab money" either. Jewish and Arab Americans aren't Americans to him. Just foreign interests. He named his campaign car "The Transparency Machine." On this, he's delivered. 021
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 03/04/2026@markwarnerva.bsky.social delivered for Virginia. Broadband. Economic investment. Accountability when it counted. Now he needs us to deliver for him. Most important cycle of our lives. Not a single vote for granted. Get in it, Virginia. 💙 000
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 03/04/2026Yesterday, Mark Moran announced his Virginia Senate campaign as an independent. Yesterday, an account called Weimerica asked him if he was taking "jew money." Same day. He said, "No." Not "that's antisemitic." Not "get lost." Just "No." Weimerica got the candidate it wanted. 066
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 17/03/2026You can oppose this war without a white nationalist finishing your sentences. Virginia Delegate Sam Rasoul chose not to. He went with the version about Jewish power pulling strings behind the scenes that’s been used to target Jews for centuries. He keeps finding what he’s looking for. 196
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 13/03/2026🧵1/ We now know how the ODU shooter got his gun. A man sold him a stolen Glock with a partially obliterated serial number for $100. He was previously investigated by the ATF for straw purchasing firearms. His punishment? A warning letter. This is a system that has failed at every level. 141
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 13/03/2026🧵1/ Virginia Delegate Sam Rasoul spent this week calling for “a reckoning on Zionism,” the belief held by most American Jews that Jews deserve a homeland. A synagogue was attacked in Michigan yesterday. That same day, he said he was heartbroken. 122
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 13/03/2026🧵1/ A family is getting the worst phone call of their life tonight. A retired Army officer went to work this morning at @olddominionu.bsky.social and didn’t come home. To the victims, their families, and the entire Monarch community, I’m so sorry. You deserve so much better than this. 110
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 12/03/2026I’ve watched this cycle play out for two years. The rhetoric builds. Leaders look away. Then a truck drives into a synagogue with 140 kids inside and suddenly everyone finds their voice. You don’t have to pull the trigger to load the gun. 012
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 28/02/2026🧵1/ What happened this morning was serious, dangerous, and launched without congressional authorization. No public accounting of what success looks like. That's not how a democracy goes to war. 100
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 14/12/2025Almost a year to the day, I was in NY with my friend Arsen. Today, he’s alive by luck alone. A bullet grazed his head at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney. His family was there. This isn’t abstract. Violence doesn’t come out of nowhere. Silence doesn’t keep the peace. It decides who gets hurt. 140
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 14/12/2025🧵1/ Eleven people murdered at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney. Kids there for music and bubbles. Candles lit. Then gunfire. This was targeted. It didn’t come out of nowhere.nytimes.comLive Updates: Police Say Jewish Community Targeted in Deadly Sydney Attack 120
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 11/12/2025Virginia’s JCRCs are sounding the alarm, and we should listen. Leaders, especially those shaping our schools, have a responsibility to lower the temperature, not fuel hate. Our Commonwealth deserves better. 010
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 22/11/2025🧵1/ You can’t fight division by telling people their fears are the problem. Real leadership starts with listening. 100
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 09/11/2025🧵 1/ I went to the Kristallnacht memorial tonight at Emek Sholom in Richmond. It’s the oldest Holocaust memorial in North America — survivors built it in 1955 after they made Virginia their home. This one hit different. Let me tell you why. 100
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 05/11/2025The moment it became official. Virginia’s first woman governor. History in real time. 🇺🇸 @abigailspanberger.com 021
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 05/11/2025Tonight, Virginia made history. @abigailspanberger.com: Our FIRST woman governor. @senatorhashmi.bsky.social: America’s FIRST Muslim woman in statewide office. Jones: Our FIRST Black Attorney General. Three trailblazers. One message: THIS is what the future looks like. 010
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 05/11/2025Abigail Spanberger just shattered Virginia’s highest glass ceiling. Former CIA officer turned public servant. Flipped a red district. Now Governor-elect. The Commonwealth said: send us someone who gets shit done. History. Made. 042
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 03/11/2025Omer Neutra is home. For 426 days, his parents lived between hope and heartbreak — not knowing if he was alive. For many more, they kept fighting to bring him home. After 758 days, Omer has been returned to the land he loved and served. May his memory be a blessing. 🕯️timesofisrael.comHamas hands over purported remains of 3 hostages; one confirmed to be Omer NeutraIf confirmed, number of slain hostages still in Strip would drop to 8; Netanyahu vows to 'eliminate' last Hamas fighters in IDF-controlled parts of Gaza 020
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 02/11/2025John Reid could watch Ghazala Hashmi rescue kittens from a burning building and still call it “radical.” There’s nothing she could do that wouldn’t offend a man this fragile. 010
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 02/11/2025While Virginians worry about groceries, bills, and childcare, Glenn Youngkin’s busy attacking a sitting senator for being Muslim. He keeps picking fights while Virginians just want solutions. On Tuesday, we’ll remind him — Virginians decide who belongs here. 000
Marc Broklawski @marc.broklawski.com · 30/10/2025Tonight was everything. @noatishby.bsky.social came to Richmond, and the turnout was incredible. The conversation was powerful. The connection was real. And the room was packed with people who care deeply about what comes next. Thank you to Jewish Federation of Richmond for making it happen. 010