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 first substantive line of Amnesty International’s genocide report says:
“On 7 October 2023, Israel embarked on a military offensive on the occupied Gaza Strip…”
But October 7 did not begin with Israel.
It began when Hamas-led terrorists invaded southern Israel, massacred civilians, and took hostages into Gaza.
Amnesty does acknowledge those facts later but not until after framing Israel as the instigator.
By beginning the story with Israel’s response, the report distorts the moral sequence of the war and pushes the Hamas-led massacre into the background.
When a report gets the starting point of the war wrong, it undermines the credibility of everything that follows.
As NGO Monitor Legal Advisor Anne Herzberg put it at the ThincLaw symposium, that is why the report belongs “in the garbage.”
Rewriting the moral sequence of October 7 does not advance human rights.
It shields terrorists from accountability and distorts the truth about one of the worst massacres against Jews since the Holocaust.
🎥: NGO Monitor
Hamas says Palestinian Vice President Hussein al-Sheikh called to congratulate Khalil al-Hayya after he became the group’s new leader.
Al-Hayya is not a normal political figure. He is a senior Hamas leader whom Israel has accused of helping mastermind the October 7th massacre.
Hamas also says Turkey’s intelligence chief, Ibrahim Kalin, congratulated Al-Hayya; unsurprising from a government that has repeatedly defended Hamas, refused to treat it as a terrorist organization, and hosted Hamas leaders on Turkish soil.
When officials congratulate the rise of a Hamas leader less than three years after October 7th, it exposes how closely aligned they remain with a group responsible for the mass murder and kidnapping of civilians.
That should matter to anyone who claims to support peace.
The Jewish community is already familiar with politicians who spend most of their time attacking Israel, only to post generic holiday greetings on Jewish holidays (which are usually centered around the Jewish connection to Israel). But this one really takes the cake.
Mamdani’s Tisha B’Av post fails to realize the very thing that defines the day: mourning the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem and the Jewish people’s enduring connection to the Land of Israel.
The holiday is inextricably linked to the Jewish presence in Jerusalem dating back nearly 2,000 years. There’s no escaping that.
He said New York City would arrest Benjamin Netanyahu.
Now he admits what was always true: the city does not have the independent legal authority to do that.
But instead of simply acknowledging reality, Mayor Zohran Mamdani used the moment to repeat a one-sided narrative about Israel, Gaza, the ICC, and the war against Hamas.
This was never really about enforcing international law.
It was a political spectacle, one that singled out the world’s only Jewish state while minimizing the context that Hamas started this war on October 7, when Hamas-led terrorists carried out the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.
New Yorkers deserve better than slogans.
They deserve public officials who are honest, serious, and substantive when speaking about issues this painful and complex.
Father Piotr Żelazko, a Polish Catholic priest serving in Israel, is responsible for a parish of Hebrew-speaking Catholic Israelis and seven Catholic communities across the country. His ministry reflects Israel in its reality as a nation where diverse religious communities are able to practice their faith openly while living side by side.
The reality of Father Żelazko’s service offers a reminder that Israel is home to Jews, Christians, Muslims, Druze, and many other minority groups who contribute to the fabric of the country’s daily life.
Religious coexistence isn’t just an idea, it’s a reality experienced by communities across Israel, even in the face of extraordinary security challenges.
🎥: Israel MFA
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.
