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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One is a self-described former Muslim supremacist, and the other a former white supremacist. Today, they stand together to expose how extremist ideologies, no matter their origin, often converge on the same target: the Jewish people.
Their transformation is a powerful reminder that hate can be unlearned. The strongest antidote to extremism isn’t more division, it’s the courage to reject prejudice, confront lies, and choose truth over ideology.
🎥: Diplo Act
Saudi-American Christian Zionist Sahar Saeed welcomed the agreement between Israel and Lebanon as an opportunity for the Lebanese people to finally break free from Hezbollah’s grip.
Her message is an important reminder that some of Israel’s strongest allies come from across the Middle East, people who understand that defeating Hezbollah is not only in Israel’s interest, but in the interest of millions of Lebanese who have lived under the shadow of an Islamic Republic of Iran-backed terrorist organization for decades.
Real peace begins when courageous voices choose hope over extremism and stand for a future where both Israelis and Lebanese can live in security, freedom, and dignity.
🎥: bysahar.blog
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The incident shocked Jewish communities around the world because it raised a terrifying question: can Jewish and Israeli patients trust that they will receive equal care in a hospital?
Now, new reporting from The Australian, covered by The Jewish Chronicle, includes disturbing allegations from Jewish patients and healthcare workers about antisemitism in Australian medical settings, including claims that some nurses deliberately caused unnecessary pain during IV insertions.
Allegations like these must be investigated carefully, fairly, and urgently.
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The strongest response to BDS is not more division, it’s a stronger coalition.
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This coalition is a demonstration that people of different faiths can stand together against discrimination and in support of cooperation.
Multifaith allyship is one of the greatest challenges to the BDS movement because it rejects the false choice between supporting one community and standing with another. Real progress comes when Muslims, Jews, Christians, and all people who value peace choose partnership over polarization.
In London, members of the Iranian diaspora gathered with flowers and candles to honor the late Senator Lindsey Graham.
They remembered him not only as a steadfast friend of Israel, but as a vocal supporter of the Iranian people in their struggle against the Islamic Republic.
For Iranians who have lived under the regime’s oppression, or fled it in search of freedom, Senator Graham’s support represented something deeply meaningful: the knowledge that their voices were heard, their suffering was seen, and their aspirations for freedom had allies in the United States.
The vigil was a moving tribute to a leader whose support reached far beyond America’s borders. Senator Graham stood with Israel, stood against tyranny, and stood with people around the world who yearn to live freely.
May his memory be a blessing. 🇺🇸🇮🇱
Professor Steven Prawer told Australia’s Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion that the 2024 occupation of his University of Melbourne office by masked protesters shattered the principles of academic discourse he had spent his career defending.
The consequences didn’t end on campus. Professor Prawer testified that he has since installed security cameras at his home and taken additional precautions to protect his family.
No professor should have to fear for their safety because they’re Jewish or because they refuse to yield to intimidation. Universities cannot claim to defend free inquiry while allowing harassment and fear to replace open debate. Jewish students and faculty deserve campuses where ideas are challenged, not where people are attacked.
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No community should need extraordinary security simply to practice its faith, send its children to school, or gather in prayer.
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Every government has a responsibility to ensure that its Jewish citizens can live proudly, safely, and free from fear.
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Now, UN Deputy Special Coordinator Ramiz Alakbarov is “strongly” condemning the obstruction of humanitarian operations by Gaza’s “de facto authorities,” referring to Hamas.
According to Alakbarov, armed personnel affiliated with those authorities forced their way into a food distribution point, entered a World Food Programme warehouse, reportedly assaulted truck drivers, intimidated aid workers, and disrupted the delivery of life-saving assistance.
This acknowledgment matters, but it comes far too late.
Anyone who genuinely cares about Gaza’s civilians must confront the reality that Hamas has repeatedly exploited humanitarian suffering, endangered aid workers, and provoked the misery of the very people it claims to represent.
