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 lecturer reportedly affiliated with Canadian postsecondary institutions stood at an anti-Israel rally in a heavily Jewish Toronto neighborhood and repeated one of history’s most grotesque antisemitic libels.
Abbas Hamze, identified in reports as an instructor and lecturer, allegedly told the crowd that Zionists “rape, kill, and eat children,” while also invoking accusations of “black magic.”
Toronto Police’s Hate Crime Unit is now investigating.
Hamze has been reported as holding teaching roles at the University of Niagara Falls Canada, Georgian College, and Conestoga College. The University of Niagara Falls Canada currently lists an Abbas Hamze as a lecturer and has said it is aware of a video that allegedly involves a sessional faculty member.
Students deserve classrooms free from this kind of hateful rhetoric.
Academic institutions should take these allegations seriously and make clear that demonizing Jews or Zionists with medieval antisemitic conspiracies has no place in higher education.
Hamas captivity survivor Evyatar David spoke with CNN’s Bianna Golodryga about the horrifying reality behind the Hamas propaganda video that showed him being forced to dig his own grave.
David said Hamas commanders selected him for the video because his severe emaciation was visibly apparent.
He described how even walking 50 meters in his condition was an immense physical undertaking, yet Hamas forced him to walk, dig what he believed could become his own grave, and perform for their cameras.
His starvation wasn’t just cruelty. Hamas deliberately turned the suffering of a starving hostage into propaganda for the world to consume.
Three former UNRWA school teachers have been proposed for debarment by the U.S. Department of State after a USAID Office of Inspector General investigation allegedly linked them to Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the October 7 massacre, and the captivity of Israeli hostages.
According to USAID OIG, one former UNRWA teacher was also a Hamas military operative in the Deir el-Balah Battalion and allegedly participated in kidnapping operations during the October 7 attacks.
A second former teacher was allegedly identified through Hamas military records as an operative in Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s Rafah Brigade and was allegedly inside Israel during the attacks.
A third former teacher was allegedly a Hamas operative in the Deir el-Balah Battalion who received and held civilian hostages beginning on October 7.
USAID OIG says its ongoing investigation has referred over 100 current or former UNRWA staff to the State Department for review over alleged participation in October 7 and/or affiliation with Hamas.
Humanitarian aid must reach civilians in need.
It cannot be compromised by terrorist organizations — and those alleged to have participated in massacre, kidnapping, or terror activity must never be allowed to recirculate through U.S.-funded aid systems.
American content creator Caleb Snyder decided to put a common claim about Christians in Jerusalem to the test himself.
He spent hours walking through Jerusalem’s Old City as a visibly Christian visitor, waiting to see whether he would be harassed or mistreated because of his faith.
It didn’t happen.
Instead of relying on someone else’s narratives about life in Israel, Snyder went to see the reality for himself. Sometimes the best way to challenge a narrative is simply to show up and experience the truth firsthand.
Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri, spiritual leader of the Syrian Druze community, delivered a message of support for Israel in a press conference.
Sheikh al-Hijri underlined the bond between his community and Israel, stating: “We, as Druze, are an inseparable part of the State of Israel.”
He also appealed directly to Western powers to request international engagement and support for the Druze community in Syria as they face persecution.
Israeli security forces have initiated the transfer of the UNRWA-operated Qalandiya Vocational Training Center in East Jerusalem’s Kafr Aqab. The site is slated for redevelopment into a municipal educational and community complex.
Emmanuel Navon, Israel’s Ambassador-designate to Japan, responded to the UN’s framing of the event by pointing out that UNRWA does not own the land and highlighting Israel’s NIS 40 million investment in local schools and facilities.
“This is not about protecting education,” he wrote. “It is about protecting UNRWA from accountability despite its documented penetration by Hamas.” He concluded by calling for the truth to be heard by the world’s governments and taxpayers.
The U.S. Treasury Department has officially sanctioned Palestine Action under counterterrorism authorities, designating the UK-based group as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist organization.
According to Treasury, Palestine Action has supported acts involving break-ins at defense infrastructure and British military installations, injuries to law enforcement, and millions of dollars in damage to military equipment.
The group has long targeted Israel-linked defense companies, including Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest defense firm.
This designation means any Palestine Action property or interests under U.S. jurisdiction are blocked, and U.S. persons are generally prohibited from providing funds, goods, or services to the group.
Criticism of Israel is protected speech.
But vandalism, intimidation, and attacks on defense infrastructure are not human rights advocacy.
They are extremism, and now the U.S. government is treating Palestine Action accordingly.
Syrian-born Lebanese activist Rawan Osman was raised with a deeply negative view of Israel. Today, she has dedicated her advocacy to challenging the narratives she was taught.
Speaking with Australia’s 24 News, Osman described the anti-Israel indoctrination she says many children encounter across parts of the Arab world, and how social media is beginning to break down those barriers by giving people direct access to Israeli voices and perspectives they previously never encountered.
Osman also argued that confronting anti-Zionism is not Israel’s struggle alone. Anti-Israel movements reject far more than the Jewish state: they challenge the pluralism, individual freedoms, and democratic values that underpin Western societies.
Her own transformation demonstrates why exposure to different perspectives matters. Hatred can be taught, but it can also be unlearned.
