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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Boy George chose principle over convenience.
After his label manager reportedly refused to release his new song in solidarity with survivors of the Nova Music Festival massacre, Boy George parted ways with Tony Pontius, who he says has “has run my record label BGP for a number of years.”
The song, “We Will Dance Again” (עוד נרקוד), honors the victims and survivors of the October 7 massacre. Its Hebrew title is the a powerful symbol of resilience long-embraced by both Nova survivors and Hamas captivity survivors.
At a time when many in the music industry have remained silent, Boy George made a different choice. Thank you for your moral clarity.
If you appreciate artists who stand with victims of terrorism, show Boy George your support on X, YouTube, and every platform where his voice can be heard.
A group of Israeli tourists in Crete say they were attacked after singing in Hebrew outside their hotel.
According to the report given to Israel’s National Center for Combating Antisemitism and Channels 12 and 13, a mob shouting “F* Israel”** and “Free Palestine” chased them into the hotel, searched room-to-room for Israelis, threw bottles, and shot one Israeli in the head with an air rifle. Several of the Israeli tourists barricaded themselves in their rooms as they feared for their lives.
This what results when hatred becomes institutionalized. As Jewish and Israeli lives are devalued, violent acts committed against them become socially acceptable, and even encouraged.
Greek authorities must do more to root out antisemitism and protect Israelis visiting their territory.
When an 11-day-old baby in Rwanda needed life-saving heart surgery, Dr. Sagi Assa of Israel’s Wolfson Medical Center got on a plane, performed the procedure, and returned to Israel the very same day.
Working alongside Dr. Gerard Misago, a Rwandan pediatric cardiologist whom he had trained in Israel, Dr. Assa successfully treated baby Angel, who was born with a critical heart defect.
Israeli humanitarianism looks like sharing expertise, training the next generation of doctors, and going wherever necessary to save a life.
These are the allies we need. #boygeorge #courage.
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When asked in May why he supports Israel, Boy George rejected the premise that he owed anyone an explanation for his friendships or beliefs.
“I’ve had Jewish friends since I was a teenager,” he said, adding that he shouldn’t have to defend those relationships.
Now, the British artist has released “We Will Dance Again,” a song dedicated to the survivors of the Nova Music Festival massacre on October 7.
In an era when many public figures stay silent out of fear of backlash, choosing empathy over intimidation takes courage. Supporting victims of terrorism and standing with Jewish friends should never be treated as something that requires justification.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz noted that Germany bears a special historical responsibility toward Israel and said that, for this reason, his government will not support broad sanctions against Israel for the foreseeable future.
At a time when some governments are calling for sweeping punitive measures, Germany’s position underscores that supporting Israel’s security while engaging on areas of disagreement are not mutually exclusive.
Germany’s commitment reflects the unique historical relationship between the two nations and the belief that dialogue, not blanket sanctions, is the more constructive path forward.
Scooter Braun challenged the way the word “Zionist” is increasingly used in public discourse, arguing that it has become a stand-in for attacking Jews.
He said he didn’t believe he needed to identify himself as a “Zionist” because the existence of a Jewish homeland is already a reality, not a hypothetical political aspiration. He argued that many people now use the term “Zionist” as a way to say hateful things about Jews without saying “Jew.”
His message was that if someone wants to criticize him because he’s Jewish, they should say it openly instead of hiding behind coded language.
These remarks reflect how “political language can blur into prejudice, and why it’s important to distinguish criticism of policies from rhetoric that targets Jews as a people.
When confronted in the halls of the U.S. Capitol by a reporter from Drop Site News, Senator John Fetterman did not back down.
In the exchange, Fetterman accused the outlet of being “pro-Hamas” and reaffirmed his support for Israel’s campaign against Hamas’s leadership.
Whatever one thinks of his style, the underlying point matters.
Hamas is a terrorist organization responsible for the October 7 massacre, the kidnapping of civilians, and the suffering of Israelis and Palestinians alike.
At a time when too many people blur the line between civilians and terrorists, moral clarity still matters.
Standing with Israel against Hamas is not a rejection of peace.
It is a recognition that lasting peace cannot coexist with a terrorist regime committed to Israel’s destruction.
