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
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.
From his hospital bed in Abu Dhabi, Captain Smit Machchhar has recounted the attack by his co-pilot that sent a FlyDubai flight plunging toward the ground.
Despite serious injuries, Captain Machchhar managed to open the cockpit door, allowing passengers and crew to intervene. Israeli passengers helped subdue the attacker, and an off-duty pilot took control of the aircraft. All 172 passengers and 8 crewmembers aboard survived.
His courage, alongside the decisive actions of those who came to his aid, helped prevent a catastrophe. We wish Captain Machchhar a full recovery and honor everyone who stood up to save innocent lives. 🇮🇱🇮🇳
The University of Pittsburgh created a working group to examine campus antisemitism.
But before issuing its final report, the group reportedly did not interview, survey, or hold focus groups with the university’s broader Jewish student community about their experiences.
Pitt is home to an estimated 1,400 Jewish undergraduates. How can a university meaningfully assess antisemitism on its campus without directly asking Jewish students what they are experiencing?
The university says it is in ongoing conversations with Jewish students, and the report itself recommends regularly surveying antisemitism on campus. That engagement should be central to the work, not something that comes afterward.
Jewish students deserve to be heard. Their experiences should inform how universities understand antisemitism, how they respond to it, and how they work to make Jewish students feel safe and welcome on campus.
You cannot fully understand a problem without listening to the people living through it.
“I’m pro-Israel because I’m pro-Palestine.”
MTF National Spokesperson Taryn Thomas explains why Palestinian freedom and Israel’s existence are not mutually exclusive.
A political movement that treats Israel’s existence and Palestinian freedom as mutually exclusive traps Palestinians in permanent conflict. Palestinian liberation cannot require Jewish elimination.
Real freedom means the ability to live, vote, speak openly, and build a future without terror or oppression. Palestinians deserve that future and it does not, nor will it ever, require Israel’s destruction.
Nearly 70 Jewish American educators canceled a planned study trip to Italy after they were told they would be expected to distance themselves from Israel’s actions in Gaza.
A leaked recording broadcast by Italy’s Tg3 captures Maddalena Tedeschi, president of the host organization Reggio Children, discussing declarations distancing participants from the “occupation” and “genocide.” Reggio Children has since said the additional declaration was discussed but never became a formal requirement.
Before the trip, activists also scrutinized participants’ personal and institutional social media profiles for perceived ties to Israel and the IDF. Organizers ultimately cited both the political pressure surrounding the group and concerns about participants’ safety in canceling the visit.
Jewish educators should not have to pass a political test to participate in professional learning. Scrutinizing Jewish participants for their real or perceived connections to Israel, and expecting them to answer for the policies of the Israeli government, has no place in education.
Education should build bridges, not put Jewish people in the position of defending their identity or associations simply to enter the room.
