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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The Republic of Nauru, a small Pacific island nation northeast of Australia with a population of about 12,000, has announced it will open an embassy in Jerusalem. The move builds on years of strong ties between the two countries and reflects Nauru’s continued support for Israel.
Despite its size, Nauru maintains diplomatic relations with countries around the world, including Australia, the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom. Its decision to deepen ties with Israel is a reminder that nations of every size continue to strengthen their partnerships with the Jewish state.
Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar says documents seized by the IDF show that the Global Sumud Flotilla was not simply a grassroots humanitarian initiative, but was allegedly financed, directed, and operationally supported by Hamas-linked networks.
According to Israel’s Foreign Ministry, the documents connect flotilla figures to the Popular Conference for Palestinians Abroad, an organization the U.S. Treasury has described as clandestinely controlled by Hamas.
Sa’ar also pointed to Zaher Birawi, a longtime flotilla organizer whom the U.S. Treasury sanctioned earlier this year over his role in the Hamas-linked PCPA.
Humanitarian aid should reach civilians in need. But when terror organizations allegedly use civilian activism, charitable language, and international campaigns as cover, those networks deserve serious scrutiny.
The public deserves to know who is really behind these efforts, and whether humanitarian causes are being exploited to advance the objectives of terrorist organizations.
Jewish DJ Barbara Butch was forced to leave the stage at a music festival in Grenoble after pro-Palestinian demonstrators disrupted her performance, hurled abuse, and reportedly threw bottles toward the stage.
City officials suspended the concert after roughly 20 minutes, citing threats against the artist and the need to protect the audience, crew, and everyone present.
Butch had previously supported a proposed French law aimed at combating new forms of antisemitism. After the incident, she and her lawyer said the protest had crossed the line from political opposition into intimidation and antisemitic violence.
This did not happen in isolation. It follows a broader pattern of Jewish and Israeli cultural figures in France facing harassment, boycotts, and disruption: from antisemitic abuse directed at Jewish comedian Rosa Bursztein to the disruption of an Israel Philharmonic performance in Paris.
Artists should not be driven from the stage because of their Jewish identity, their ties to Israel, or their refusal to conform to anti-Israel political demands.
France must protect Jewish artists, audiences, and cultural institutions before intimidation becomes accepted as a normal part of public life.
The Palestinian Authority claims it has ended its prisoner and Martyrs Fund payment system, often referred to as “Pay for Slay,” which provided payments to Palestinians imprisoned for terrorism and other security offenses, as well as to the families of attackers.
But the U.S. State Department says the available evidence does not prove that the payments have actually stopped.
The PA has pointed to an audit as proof of reform. But according to U.S. officials, the audit examined only the new welfare institution and did not determine whether payments are continuing through other channels, including disguised wages, pensions, or cash transfers.
This should not be complicated.
If the Palestinian Authority has truly ended payments that reward terrorism, it should prove it through full transparency, documentation, and independent verification.
Until then, the international community should not accept the PA’s claims at face value.
The U.S. military has identified the two American soldiers killed in an Iranian attack on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan as First Lieutenant Tyler James Feehan, 25, of Hawaii, and Private Isabella Gonzales, 19, of Texas.
Both were serving in Army air-defense units supporting the U.S. mission in the region when they were killed.
Their deaths are a devastating reminder that the Iranian regime’s aggression is not abstract. Its attacks — carried out directly and through its network of terrorist proxies — put American service members, Israel, and regional allies in constant danger.
Tyler and Isabella were young Americans who bravely served their country.
May their memories be a blessing, and may their families find strength in the face of this unimaginable loss.
Israel has requested an investigation after an airport service vehicle struck an Israir aircraft at London Luton Airport — reportedly the third similar incident involving the airline at the same airport in less than a year.
The latest collision forced the cancellation of an Israir flight from London to Tel Aviv, leaving passengers stranded.
Three similar incidents involving the same Israeli airline at the same airport should raise serious questions. At minimum, passengers deserve transparency, accountability, and a thorough investigation into whether these events were accidental, negligent, or something more concerning.
Bret Stephens challenges one of the most serious accusations leveled against Israel by asking a simple question: what does genocide actually mean?
He points to atrocities such as the Rwandan genocide, where hundreds of thousands of Tutsis were slaughtered in roughly 100 days, and to the Iranian regime’s brutal massacres of its own civilians.
Those horrors did not produce anything like the sustained campus movement now devoted to accusing Israel of genocide.
Israel is fighting a terrorist organization that embeds fighters, weapons, tunnels, and command centers inside civilian areas. And yet, the IDF continues to take extraordinary measures to reduce civilian harm.
One can debate Israeli policy. One can criticize Israeli military decisions. But equating Israel’s war against Hamas with genocide erodes the distinction between the tragedy of civilian casualties in war and the specific intent required by the legal definition of genocide.
As Stephens argues, words matter.
When “genocide” is stripped of its meaning and turned into a political slogan, it does a disservice not only to Israel, but to the victims of actual genocides throughout history.
Colombia’s incoming government has announced plans to withdraw the country’s intervention in South Africa’s ICJ case against Israel, reversing a major policy of the previous administration.
The incoming government has also pledged to restore full diplomatic relations with Israel, reopen channels of cooperation, and establish an embassy in Jerusalem.
At a time when too many governments are choosing isolation and accusation, this is a welcome reminder that diplomacy is strongest when it encourages dialogue, accountability, and cooperation rather than deepening division.
