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
Former U.S. Representative Cori Bush says Israel has revoked her entry visa, according to a video she shared on Instagram.
The former Missouri congresswoman, who recently registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act to organize “fact-finding” delegations to Judea and Samaria for a Belgian nonprofit, announced the visa revocation in her video.
Bush previously visited the region in October and publicly criticized Israeli policy toward Palestinians. Her planned work with the nonprofit includes coordinating future visits and recruiting current and former members of Congress and other political figures to participate.
A powerful message of solidarity from Iran’s Crown Prince, Reza Pahlavi following his visit to Auschwitz and Birkenau with his wife, Yasmine. He reflected on the human lives destroyed in the Holocaust, describing how every stolen personal belonging on display there represents a person with a name, a family, and a future stolen from them.
He drew a direct connection between the bureaucratic efficiency of the mass murder of Jews in the Holocaust and the Islamic Republic’s continued campaign of denial, censorship, and repression of the Iranian people.
“The heirs of Cyrus stand with the Jewish people,” he wrote, affirming that the Iranian nation stands for life and liberty, not the hatred and destruction promoted by the regime.
On behalf of the Iranian people, the couple placed a wreath including the Lion and Sun, Iran’s historic pre-regime national emblem, at the memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
His message was one of remembrance, friendship, and hope for a free Iran that once again stands alongside the Jewish people for peace, life, and human dignity.
A video showing students displaying a swastika on their bodies has prompted concern and outrage at Charlotte Country Day School, a private K–12 school in North Carolina.
The footage, shared with Queen City News by parents, reportedly circulated among members of the school’s varsity soccer team. It shows two students, one of whom lifts his shirt to reveal a swastika drawn on his body.
Head of School Dr. Tara Christie Kinsey acknowledged “recent misogynistic, racist, and antisemitic incidents” in the school’s middle and upper schools, stating that disciplinary action was being taken. However, the administration has declined to provide further details about the incidents or the consequences.
A swastika is not a joke. It represents the ideology responsible for the systematic murder of six million Jews.
Schools have a responsibility not only to discipline antisemitic behavior, but to confront the hatred behind it through education, accountability, and meaningful action. Jewish students deserve to feel safe in their own school communities.
A troubling new survey found that 22% of college students surveyed agreed with the statement: “America deserved September 11.”
The 2026 Buckley Institute survey of 803 full-time undergraduates under age 25 found that 72% disagreed, while roughly 6% were unsure.
The survey has important limitations. It used an opt-in online sample rather than a traditional probability sample, and it did not ask follow-up questions about what respondents meant by saying America “deserved” 9/11.
So the result should not be interpreted as evidence that one in five college students supports terrorism or believes the nearly 3,000 people murdered on September 11 deserved to die.
But the finding is still worth taking seriously.
Twenty-five years after al-Qaeda carried out the deadliest terrorist attack in American history, a significant share of the students surveyed were willing to endorse language saying that America “deserved” what happened.
That same phrase has also entered popular political commentary. Hasan Piker famously said “America deserved 9/11,” later explaining that he was referring to the consequences of U.S. foreign policy rather than arguing that the victims deserved to be killed.
There is an important difference between examining how American policies may contribute to conflict abroad and describing a terrorist attack on civilians as something a country “deserved.”
Whatever respondents intended, that distinction deserves serious discussion.
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch has received the prestigious Theodor Herzl Award from the World Jewish Congress in recognition of her leadership and commitment to confronting antisemitism and protecting Jewish life.
At the awards dinner, Tisch communicated a message antisemitism cannot be left to law enforcement alone. “We should not have to wait until a Jewish New Yorker is attacked before we find the courage to confront the hatred directed at them,” she said.
Thank you, Commissioner Tisch, for using your platform to speak up and reminding us that protecting Jewish communities requires everyday people to recognize hatred.
Making history at just 24 years old.
Yonatan Shalev has become the youngest Member of Knesset in Israeli history, joining parliament as part of Naftali Bennett’s B’Yachad list and breaking a record that had stood since 1959.
He served in an elite unit in the IDF called Maglan, fighting in Gaza against Hamas and in Lebanon against Hezbollah.
Shalev says he hopes to bring the voice of Israel’s younger generation into the Knesset and help build a stronger future for the country.
A new generation stepping forward to help shape Israel’s future.
Newly elected MK Elisha Medan, who lost both legs while fighting Hamas terrorists in Gaza, stood on his prosthetic legs to take his oath of office as a member of Israel’s 26th Knesset.
As he declared his commitment to serve, lawmakers from both sides of the political aisle rose in a standing ovation.
Three years after being critically wounded defending his country, Medan stood as a representative of his nation as a member of his country’s parliament.
A powerful reminder of the courage, sacrifice, and resilience of those who defend Israel. 🇮🇱
After weeks in intensive care and multiple major operations, Neria Leiter, son of Israel’s Ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter, has been released from the hospital and transferred to a specialized neurological rehabilitation facility.
Neria was critically wounded in September when a Palestinian terrorist deliberately rammed him with a vehicle at the Bell checkpoint on Route 443. He remains unconscious and has been breathing on his own for a few weeks.
The Leiter family has already endured the devastating loss of another son, Major (Res.) Moshe Yedidya Leiter, who fell fighting Hamas terrorists in Gaza in November 2023.
As Neria begins this next stage of his recovery, his family is asking the public to continue praying for him.
We stand with the Leiter family during this unimaginably difficult time and pray for Neria’s full recovery. May he find the strength to fight his way back.
