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”
The Latest From @MacTaskForce
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has released a unanimously approved, bipartisan report on the federal response to campus antisemitism.
Its conclusion is clear: antisemitism on campus is a serious civil rights concern that demands urgent, transparent, and consistent action.
The report calls attention to inconsistent university responses, limited federal transparency, and reduced enforcement capacity in addressing antisemitic discrimination after October 7.
It also makes an important distinction: universities must protect political speech, peaceful protest, academic freedom, and First Amendment rights.
But they must also enforce Title VI and address discrimination and harassment targeting Jewish students based on shared ancestry or national origin.
Every student has the civil right to an education free from discrimination, harassment, and fear.
University administrations cannot keep treating antisemitism as too complicated, too political, or too controversial to confront.
Clear standards matter. Consistent enforcement matters. Jewish students’ civil rights matter.
Equating Zionism with racism is not human rights. It is antisemitism.
As the UN marks 25 years since the Durban Conference, Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon addressed the hateful legacy of a conference that was supposed to fight racism — but instead became a platform for demonizing Israel and reviving the false accusation that Zionism is racism.
That accusation does not advance peace.
It denies the Jewish people the same right to self-determination afforded to others.
And it turns the movement for Jewish national liberation into something uniquely sinister.
As Danon wrote on X: “You can’t fight racism while simultaneously spreading antisemitism.”
He is right. A human rights movement that singles out the world’s only Jewish state for demonization is not fighting hate.
It is participating in it.
The Netherlands’ latest trade restrictions do not just target Israel in the abstract.
They target real communities, real workers, and real families — including Druze and Alawite communities in the Golan Heights whose livelihoods are tied to agriculture, trade, tourism, and regional stability.
Reports say the Dutch ban applies to products from Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria, eastern Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights. That means peaceful farmers, small businesses, and minority communities can become collateral damage in a political boycott.
This is the problem with anti-Israel boycotts.
They are sold as human-rights measures, but in practice they punish civilians, deepen division, and single out the Jewish state for economic isolation.
If European governments want to promote peace, they should encourage coexistence, investment, and dialogue — not impose blanket bans that hurt the very people living and working on the ground.
More than 1,800 Christians from over 70 nations gathered in the heart of Jerusalem today for a celebration of Sukkot, known to the Christian community as the biblical Feast of Tabernacles.
Believers from across the world took to the streets of Jerusalem in a joyful march, singing, waving flags, and showing unwavering love and support for the Jewish people and the State of Israel.
Events like this one remind us of the deep, enduring bonds of friendship that connect millions of people worldwide to Israel and the Jewish people.
🎥: @jerusalemdateline
Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon thanked Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama for highlighting Albania’s unique history of protecting Jews during the Holocaust.
Rama has noted that Albania was the only European country whose Jewish population was larger at the end of World War II than at the beginning, as Albanians sheltered and protected Jews from across Europe.
Danon thanked Rama for his “courageous friendship,” writing that his leadership is “a moral compass in the fight against antisemitism wherever it appears.”
More than 6,000 scholars, historians, legal experts, public figures, and other leaders have signed an open letter rejecting the accusation that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
The signatories include Harvard professor Steven Pinker, historian Niall Ferguson, and Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt among others.
The letter argues that the genocide accusation ignores the realities of fighting Hamas, stating “the bitter irony is that Israel, home to half the world’s Jews, is the only country to face a sustained war of attempted genocide – from its inception in 1948 until today.”
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese issued a rare public apology on X after attempting to rewrite the definition of antisemitism and distort Holocaust history by claiming Nazi concentration camp prisoners were referred to as “Muslims” and that antisemitism originally referred to hatred of all Semitic peoples.
When Maccabee Task Force (MTF) National Campus Director Benjamin Sweetwood responded to her retraction by pointing out what he implied is her long-standing track record of spreading harmful disinformation about Jews, Albanese responded not with accountability, but by blocking him.
It’s deeply revealing that a high-ranking United Nations official, tasked with holding global leaders accountable, is attempting to silence a Jewish student advocate when challenged on her record.
Blocking those who call attention to that record only underscores that behind her apology lies an ongoing refusal to face scrutiny for her rhetoric which deeply affects the Jewish community.
According to reports, a 22-year-old student from Gaza, Hussein Issa, was allowed entry to the Netherlands to study at Maastricht University.
In a since-deleted Instagram video, Issa appears to watch footage of the October 7 Hamas massacre, and then point at masked attackers on the screen, give a thumbs-up and say, “Seventh of October. This is me.”
Maastricht University has reportedly decided to provisionally suspended him from classes and university buildings while it determines whether and under what conditions he can continue his studies.
