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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A new report by IMPACT-se finds that Syria’s post-Assad school curriculum continues to teach antisemitic stereotypes while glorifying jihad and martyrdom.
After analyzing 130 textbooks used across grades 1–12, researchers found that Syria’s curriculum under Ahmed al-Sharaa has shifted away from Assad-era pan-Arab nationalism toward a more Islamist worldview.
Among the examples: a Grade 6 lesson teaches students that “treason and backstabbing are among the traits of the Jews.” The report also finds that Jewish history in Syria is absent, while violence and martyrdom are increasingly framed in religious terms.
Changing governments means little if the next generation is still being taught hatred.
Syria has an opportunity to build a different future, one in which children are educated for coexistence rather than raised on antisemitic stereotypes and the glorification of violence.
Peace in the Middle East must begin in the classroom.
Windows were smashed and the messages “DROP ELBIT” and “PAL ACTION” were spray-painted on a Capital One branch on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Elbit Systems is a prominent Israeli defense company, and both messages imply the perpetrators’ hatred toward Israel.
NYC Council Speaker Julie Menin says the NYPD is now investigating the vandalism as a hate crime, noting that the community is deeply concerned and upset about the incident.
This isn’t ‘political activism,’ but instead intimidation and destruction. When anti-Israel rhetoric escalates into violent attacks on property it demands serious investigation and accountability.
All New Yorkers, including the Jewish ones, deserve to live in a city where threats, hate, and violence have no place.
A former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture is publicly accusing fellow UN human rights officials of failing the Israeli victims of October 7.
Dr. Alice Jill Edwards singled out UN Special Rapporteurs Francesca Albanese and Reem Alsalem, saying they “never formally documented” the atrocities she says were supported by a growing body of evidence, and failed to give sufficient weight to the firsthand testimony of released Israeli hostages describing torture and deprivation in captivity.
Edwards has documented torture and abuses against both Israelis and Palestinians. But she says the UN undermines its own credibility when its human rights mechanisms focus on one set of victims while failing to adequately recognize another.
Human rights cannot be selective.
The victims of October 7 and the hostages who endured abuse and torture deserve the same recognition, seriousness, and commitment to accountability as victims anywhere else.
“Globalize the Holocaust.”
“The Führer is coming, rats.”
“Let there be an October 7 all day every day.”
These are among the statements federal prosecutors allege were posted by Guangtian Ha, the Haverford College religion professor charged with felony cyberstalking.
According to court filings, the messages included antisemitic slurs, blood-libel imagery, repeated references to Hitler and the Holocaust, the publication of a Jewish colleague’s home address, and threatening references to his family and children.
Prosecutors allege that some messages invoked mass violence against Jews, while others targeted a specific Jewish colleague and his family at their home.
Jewish people should be able to live and work without fear of threats, stalking, or intimidation.
Those responsible for criminal harassment and threats must be held accountable through due process.
A Haverford College religion professor has been charged with felony cyberstalking after prosecutors say he carried out a months-long campaign of antisemitic threats against a Jewish colleague and his family.
Guangtian Ha allegedly used anonymous social media accounts to send dozens of threatening messages, publish his colleague’s home address and information about his child, and make statements calling for Jews to be driven out or “cleansed” from the community.
According to court filings, the threats became so serious that the colleague’s spouse and children temporarily fled their home.
Ha has pled not guilty to the charges.
No one should have to fear for their family’s safety because they are Jewish.
Antisemitic threats online are not harmless words when they target real people, identify their homes and families, and leave them fearing for their safety. They must be taken seriously, investigated, and confronted wherever they occur.
Israeli public diplomacy advocate Fleur Hassan-Nahoum and her group were attacked with stones during a tour of the Binyamin region in the West Bank. One rock shattered their car window and lightly injured a participant, Israel advocate Cindy Seni.
The group avoided more serious injuries after their driver urged everyone to duck as the attack unfolded.
Stone-throwing, which is often excused by international media, can cause serious injury or death.
The simple act of Israelis entering a space where they aren’t wanted is met with intimidation and violence.
🎥: i24 News
A Jewish family in London withdrew their 9-year-old son from a state primary school after a teacher allegedly told him that Jews were to blame for October 7.
According to the family, this followed earlier incidents of anti-Israel hostility towards the student. When his parents asked the school for antisemitism awareness training, they say they were told staff could not be forced into “politics.”
October 7 was a massacre carried out by Hamas terrorists, and blaming Jewish children for it is unconscionable.
No child should have to leave their school to feel safe being Jewish. Schools must confront antisemitism, and not dismiss it as politics under the guise of “anti-Zionism.”
Antisemitism is reaching children as young as elementary school.
Fox News digital contributor Ariella Noveck told Australia’s News 24 that Jewish students across the US are facing a climate of Jew-hatred so severe that some are afraid to tell teachers they need to miss school for Jewish holidays.
Ariella detailed another anecdote about a student who had told her they were made to sit in class during which the teacher had claimed that the Holocaust was made up.
Schools must confront antisemitic ideology at every level and ensure Jewish students can learn, practice, feel safe being openly Jewish, and not be made to defend the very real history of genocide against their ancestors to a teacher.
