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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Arab Israeli activist Yoseph Haddad welcomed a delegation of leading Portuguese influencers to Israel, none of whom are Jewish, but all of whom came to see the country for themselves and stand with its people.
As Haddad wrote, these creators aren’t afraid to speak publicly because they believe they are standing on the side of truth. After seeing Israel firsthand, they’ll return to Portugal equipped with first-hand knowledge and experience to push back against misinformation and anti-Israel propaganda.
In a world where so many opinions about Israel are formed from social media alone, those willing to seek the truth firsthand and speak about it despite the pressure deserve recognition. Courage isn’t following the crowd, it’s standing for the truth even when that’s unpopular.
University of Melbourne physics professor Steven Prawer once kept an open-door policy for every student. That changed in October 2024 after some 20 pro-Palestine protesters occupied his office, shouting accusations that he was complicit in “genocide” because of his research links with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The Hebrew University is attended by Jewish, Arab Muslim, Christian, Druze, Palestinian, and international students, and its researchers collaborate across communities. Yet none of that mattered to the mob that targeted Professor Prawer.
No professor should have to install security measures because they support academic collaboration. Jewish academics being singled out, harassed, and made to fear for their safety, is discrimination, and it has no place on any campus.
The International Criminal Court has officially removed chief prosecutor Karim Khan from office following a vote by its member states over findings of serious misconduct related to sexual misconduct allegations, which Khan continues to deny.
For an institution that claims to be the world’s highest authority on international justice, accountability must begin at home. The credibility of any international body depends not only on the cases it pursues, but also on its willingness to hold its own leadership to the same standards it expects of the entire world.
Khan’s removal marks an unprecedented chapter in the ICC’s history and brings to light major integrity issues surrounding the court’s leadership.
What happens when students put aside media narratives and experience Israel for themselves?
For fifteen non-Jewish student leaders from UCLA on an MTF trip, the answer was a completely new perspective.
For many, it was their first opportunity to see Israel for themselves beyond headlines, slogans, and social media. They met Israelis from diverse backgrounds, experienced the country’s complexity firsthand, and gained a deeper understanding of the realities behind the conflict.
As UCLA senior Daniel Diercks put it: “I didn’t know much about the conflict before I came. Now, I feel really invested in the issues.” He now plans to organize multi-faith events with Jewish students back on campus.
At a time when so many opinions about Israel are formed without ever visiting the region, firsthand experience remains one of the most powerful answers to misinformation. Winning invested allies starts with seeing reality for yourself, not through someone else’s narrative.
Masih Alinejad, an Iranian freedom activist who has spent years exposing the brutality of the Islamic Republic, delivered a powerful message to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani: if you’re so eager to speak about justice, why are you silent when Iranian regime officials responsible for the oppression and killing of tens of thousands of their own people come to New York?
While Mamdani has made Benjamin Netanyahu the centerpiece of his political messaging, Masih points out that officials representing a regime that executes innocent protestors, imprisons women, and brutally crushed the Iranian freedom movement continue to visit the city without drawing a single word of the same outrage.
As Masih wrote:
“Children and teenagers are being hanged in Iran for demanding freedom... Where are the U.S. protesters? Where is Mamdani? Please listen and be our voice.”
Selective outrage is not human rights advocacy. When some of the world’s worst human rights abusers are ignored while the world’s only Jewish state is singled out, the goal isn’t “justice,” but peddling a malicious agenda.
Alex Ryvchin, one of Australia’s leading Jewish advocates, was reportedly confronted at the Bondi massacre site and called an “evil Zionist.”
He was there with members of an Australian football club and a survivor who had been shot during the attack.
Even at a memorial to the victims of antisemitic violence, anti-Israel hatred was weaponized against a Jewish community leader.
This is what happens when “Zionist” is used as a slur — not to debate policy, but to dehumanize and intimidate Jews.
Australia cannot treat this as normal.
It must confront the antisemitic ideology that made a Jewish memorial site feel like an acceptable place for harassment.
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.
