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 survey from the Department of Canadian Heritage found that more than 95% of Jewish university students were exposed to antisemitism on campus.
As highlighted by CTV Ottawa, Jewish students are increasingly demanding accountability, including through lawsuits against universities, such as Concordia, over alleged failures to protect them from antisemitic discrimination and harassment.
Jewish students aren’t asking for special treatment. They’re demanding to be protected and receive education without hate, the same right students from every other minority group are afforded.
Today marks 25 years since the Sbarro restaurant bombing in Jerusalem, one of the deadliest terrorist attacks of the Second Intifada.
On August 9, 2001, a Hamas suicide bomber detonated explosives inside the crowded restaurant during lunchtime, ultimately killing 16 people and injuring 130 others.
Among the murdered were seven children and a pregnant woman.
They were families eating lunch. Parents with children. Ordinary people whose lives were stolen because they were civilians in Jerusalem during a deadly wave of terrorism targeting Israelis and Jews.
Twenty-five years later, we remember every victim and stand with the families who have carried this loss ever since.
May their memories always be a blessing. 🕯️
IDF troops have uncovered and dismantled another underground terrorist tunnel in Gaza, this time locating a route containing piles of rockets hidden by terrorist organizations.
The discovery underscores how Hamas and other terrorist groups continue to embed weapons beneath civilian areas, using an extensive underground network to store weapons, move fighters, and plan attacks against Israeli communities.
Every tunnel destroyed and every stash of weapons seized is one less tool available to terrorist organizations seeking to target civilians. Dismantling this infrastructure remains essential to preventing future attacks and weakening the operational capabilities of Gaza’s terrorist groups.
For Carleton University graduate Alexa Barrett-Taller, the rise in campus antisemitism became deeply personal.
After her professor blamed the Jewish people for the Hamas-led October 7 terrorist attack, Alexa tried to address the matter privately after class. Rather than addressing her concerns, the professor later invited an accused terrorist to speak to her class.
Alexa’s experience reflects the reality many Jewish students have endured since October 7th including hostility, intimidation, and the feeling that reporting antisemitism often brings isolation instead of accountability.
Universities shouldn’t tolerate these incidents by their professors because eventually, they become acceptable under a campus climate of hatred and discrimination.
🎥: CIJA
Mahmoud Fatair, a senior commander in Palestinian Islamic Jihad, has been eliminated by the IDF.
According to Israeli authorities, Fatair participated in the October 7 massacre, helped kidnap Israeli hostages into Gaza, and played a role in the captivity of Rom Braslavski.
The victims of October 7 deserve justice, those responsible for one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in Israel’s history must be held accountable.
Guy Gilboa-Dalal and Evyatar David have revealed the horrifying reality behind one of Hamas’ most notorious propaganda videos.
The two Hamas captivity survivors and childhood friends described living together in a Hamas tunnel, so weakened by starvation that they could barely speak to one another. Then one day Hamas terrorists arrived with cameras.
To manufacture a propaganda video, the terrorists hid Guy Gilboa-Dalal behind a black blanket while Evyatar David was forced to dig what he believed was to be his own grave. Then they paraded him blindfolded through Hamas commanders’ quarters, where they deliberately exposed him to the smell of cakes and tea before leading him to the filming location.
This was purposeful psychological torture, staged for cameras by a terrorist organization. Hamas held hostages prisoner, but it also exploited their suffering to produce propaganda while deliberately inflicting humiliation, starvation, and terror.
Young people in Israel continue to rise above all of the hatred and disinformation being spread about their country.
At a peace cooking camp organized by the Green Network, Jewish and Arab teens came together to cook, learn, laugh, and build friendships sharing the message “We are one nation.”
Israel is home to diverse communities that work, study, and grow alongside one another every day.
The future belongs to those willing to sit at the same table, see one another’s humanity, and choose cooperation over division. These young people are leading by example.
🎥: Jerusalem Post
A Simon & Schuster imprint is republishing two novels by Susan Abulhawa this September.
It is hard to believe that major cultural institutions would tolerate this kind of hateful rhetoric if it were directed at any other minority community.
Holocaust inversion and dehumanizing language about Jews and Israelis should not be ignored simply because they come lightly wrapped in anti-Israel activism.
There must be one standard for hate.
