How Our Model Works
MTF’s Israel trips are not the finish line. They are the catalyst for long-term campus impact.
Identify
We identify influential student leaders who shape campus culture, including student government officials, journalists, faith leaders, activists, campus organization heads, and other high-impact students.
Bring to Israel
We bring them to Israel for immersive educational trips that challenge misinformation, deepen understanding, and build real relationships with Israelis, Jewish peers, and one another.
Follow Up
After students return, we maintain engagement through reunion programs, coalition-building events, mentorship opportunities, leadership development, and continued campus support.
Activate
Trip alumni, Fellows, and student allies help organize coalitions, respond to antisemitism, challenge anti-Israel campaigns, and support Jewish students when campus tensions rise.
Lead
Over time, these students become leaders in student government, campus media, professional networks, and broader civic life.
The result: MTF does not simply change minds. We build networks of students with the influence to change campus outcomes.
Our Programs
MTF is building a campus leadership infrastructure that reaches students before, during, and after the moments when antisemitism and anti-Israel activism surface on campus.
Israel Trips
MTF brings influential non-Jewish student leaders to Israel for immersive educational trips that challenge misinformation, build relationships, and help students overcome the false and malicious narratives they’re subjected to on campus.
MTF Fellows
Our Fellows are student leaders on campus who build coalitions, recruit allies, organize programming, respond to antisemitism, and help sustain student engagement beyond the trip experience.
Post-Trip Engagement
The real work begins after the trip. MTF keeps alumni engaged through reunion programs, campus events, coalition-building opportunities, leadership development, and continued support.
Mentorship & Professional Networks
MTF connects high-potential students and young alumni with Israeli and Israel-connected professionals, helping them build lasting relationships with Israel through business, law, technology, medicine, public policy, and other fields.
International Campus Work
From England to South Africa, MTF operates in some of the most challenging campus environments in the world, developing courageous student allies in places where Jewish students often face intense hostility and where non-Jewish leadership can have an outsized impact.
Alumni Engagement
MTF’s work does not end at graduation. We are building long-term pathways for star trip alumni, Fellows, and student leaders to remain connected as mentors, speakers, advocates, professionals, and future leaders.
WHAT STUDENTS SAY
“Nothing I read in the States compared to hearing directly from Israelis on the ground. The trip forced me to confront how much of my perspective had been shaped by oversimplified and misleading narratives. If you’re serious about understanding Israel as it actually is, not as it’s portrayed, you have to see it for yourself. It's an incredible place filled with people seeking peace.”
MTF reaches the students who are often least likely to attend a traditional pro-Israel campus event and gives them the opportunity to encounter Israel directly. For many participants, the trip replaces slogans and assumptions with firsthand experience, real relationships, and a more accurate understanding of Israeli society.
“My MTF Israel trip experience was genuinely life-changing and by far the most transformative trip I have ever taken. Before visiting Israel, much of my understanding came from narratives I had absorbed on campus and online. Speaking directly with Israelis and Palestinians, and seeing the realities of the region firsthand, challenged many of those assumptions and helped me understand why Israel must exist. I also met individuals who had endured hardships I could barely imagine which gave me a new perspective on resilience and gratitude. I knew I couldn’t simply leave that experience behind when I returned to campus, which is why I chose to become an MTF Fellow and stand up for the Jewish community at Hopkins”
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Instead, she became one of thousands of Yazidi women and girls enslaved during ISIS’s genocidal campaign against the Yazidi people.
Abducted from Iraq as a child, Fawzia was sold, trafficked, forced into sexual slavery, and held captive for years. She was eventually brought to Gaza, where she remained trapped until the IDF, in coordination with the United States and other members of the international community, helped secure her freedom and reunite her with her family.
Fawzia’s story is a devastating reminder that jihadist extremism has left a trail of victims across the Middle East and beyond. Yazidis, Christians, Jews, Muslims, and countless others have suffered under movements that glorify conquest, slavery, religious hatred, and terror.
The world owes survivors like Fawzia more than sympathy. It owes them justice, moral clarity, and the courage to confront the extremist movements responsible for these crimes.
Her story must never be forgotten.
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This was not an isolated act of vandalism. It was an attack on a synagogue, a place of worship, and the Jewish community itself.
Across Europe, Jewish institutions have faced a disturbing rise in threats and attacks, forcing governments to increase security around synagogues, schools, and community centers.
No community should have to wonder whether attending prayer, gathering with family, or sending children to school will make them targets of violence.
Education is one of the most powerful tools we have to confront hatred before it takes root. Investing in Holocaust education is an important step toward giving teachers the resources to teach it accurately and responsibly. Australia must ensure that the next generation understands not only what happened, but why it matters today.
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Those lessons are as relevant today as they were nearly a century ago, especially as Jewish students across the world continue to face rising discrimination and hostility.
At the JNS 2026 Annual Policy Summit, former Maccabee Task Force Fellow at Stanford Kevin Khadavi explained what we see time and time again. When students actually visit Israel and experience the reality for themselves, they realize they have been deeply misinformed about Israel and the conflict.
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They dig into the issues, ask hard questions freely, and yet still come out on the other side with the same conclusion: Israel is a force for moral good in the world. More importantly, they return to campus able to counter the strongest claims made by Israel critics.
There’s no substitute for firsthand experience in Israel where it becomes clear that the narratives spread about Israel on campus are far from the truth.
For decades, Hezbollah has operated as an Iranian proxy that has dragged Lebanon into wars the Lebanese people never chose. As the Lebanese government works to reassert its sovereignty through a U.S.-brokered framework with Israel, Hezbollah is once again standing in the way by rejecting a path that would strengthen the Lebanese state and reduce the threat of conflict.
A peaceful and prosperous Lebanon cannot exist while an armed terrorist organization which answers to Tehran is in charge of the country. The future of Lebanon belongs to its people, not to Hezbollah.
Every step toward restoring state authority is a step toward greater security for both Lebanese and Israelis.
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One survivor, Lisa, described Fulani jihadist militants breaking into her home, killing her children and her husband in front of her, and leaving her to carry unimaginable trauma.
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If our concern for human rights is genuine, it cannot depend on who the victims are, whether their suffering is politically convenient, or whether their persecution fits a preferred narrative.
Christians facing extremist violence deserve outrage, solidarity, and global attention — just like every other persecuted community.
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Regardless of where one stands on any specific legislation, the underlying principle should be clear: Jewish students deserve the same protection from discrimination and harassment as every other community.
No student should have to choose between pursuing an education and feeling safe on campus because they are Jewish.
Universities have a responsibility to apply their nondiscrimination policies consistently and to take anti-Jewish hostility seriously when it affects students’ ability to learn, participate, and belong.
Protecting Jewish students is not a partisan issue. It is a civil-rights issue.
On Sunday Israel’s government moved to fornally recognize the Armenian Genocide: an important reminder that acknowledging historical atrocities is not a political concession. It is a moral responsibility.
The proposal will now be brought before the Knesset plenum for a vote.
More than a century after the systematic destruction of the Armenian people in the Ottoman Empire, recognition affirms a basic truth: victims deserve remembrance, dignity, justice, and historical honesty.
Recognition matters. Memory matters. Truth matters.
