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 former UN torture expert is calling out the United Nations’ failure to adequately document Hamas’s October 7 atrocities.
Dr. Alice Jill Edwards, who served as the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture until July 2026, has criticized fellow rapporteurs Francesca Albanese and Reem Alsalem for failing to properly investigate and document the massacre, sexual violence, and torture inflicted on Israelis on October 7 and against hostages held in Gaza.
Asked whether their failure was deliberate, Edwards responded:
“I think it is deliberate. They had all the opportunities. They are required to produce reports… and haven’t done so.”
The UN is supposed to document atrocities and defend victims without political bias. Israeli victims and survivors deserve the same attention, empathy, and accountability as victims anywhere else.
University of Michigan Hillel is condemning an antisemitic message shared by a member of the university’s Chi Psi fraternity in a group chat. The message mocked the Holocaust by suggesting “HallowCaust” as a possible Halloween party name and using the phrase “gassed up” to describe the event.
The message trivialized one of history’s greatest atrocities and demonstrated a disturbing disregard for the suffering of the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust.
Hillel has called for transparent accountability and public condemnation from university Greek life leadership.
Mocking the Holocaust is not humor or a party theme. It is an attack on Jewish trauma and memory, and a profound disrespect to the victims and survivors whose experiences should never be trivialized.
Universities and student organizations must make clear that antisemitism in any form has no place in campus life.
Boy George brought his support for Israel to the stage in Tel Aviv, performing before a packed stadium of tens of thousands of cheering fans.
Before taking the stage, the legendary artist visited the Nova festival site and met with Israeli President Isaac Herzog, showing solidarity with the victims of October 7 and the people of Israel.
Boy George has used his platform to stand with the Jewish people and speak out against the horrors of terrorism. His visit and performance are meaningful beyond showing external solidarity, they’re symbols of hope which show Israelis they’re not alone.
Thank you, Boy George, for standing with Israel. 🇮🇱
Federal prosecutors have charged four additional defendants in an alleged coordinated campaign of threats, vandalism, and intimidation targeting Detroit’s Jewish community, University of Michigan leadership, law enforcement, and others perceived to have ties to Israel.
The superseding indictment brings the total number of defendants charged to 12.
According to prosecutors, the alleged campaign targeted the Jewish Federation of Detroit, University of Michigan officials, a campus police lieutenant, a student, and businesses perceived to be connected to Israel.
Investigators allege that conspirators broke windows, vandalized property, threw glass jars containing noxious chemicals into family homes, and marked homes and workplaces with red inverted triangles and other symbols associated with Hamas.
Prosecutors say the broader objective was to intimidate the University of Michigan and other institutions into severing perceived ties with Israel, with threats of escalating retaliation if their demands were not met.
These are allegations, and the defendants are entitled to due process.
But no one should have to fear threats against their home or family because they are Jewish, support Israel, or are merely perceived to have a connection to it.
Political disagreement never justifies threats, intimidation, vandalism, or violence.
After surviving 505 days in Hamas captivity, Omer Shem Tov returned to the site where his life changed forever to thank Boy George for standing with Israel.
Omer was kidnapped from the Nova music festival on October 7 and endured hundreds of days of brutal captivity in Gaza. Speaking to Boy George on what was only his second visit to the memorial site since coming home, he emphasized how much the singer’s solidarity means, especially at a time when publicly supporting Israel can come with significant professional and personal consequences.
Boy George chose to use his international platform to remember the victims of October 7, stand with survivors, and bring their stories to audiences around the world. He expressed that what frightened him most was the people trying to deny the massacre.
Thank you, Boy George, for showing up, speaking out, and standing with the Nova community. And thank you, Omer, for reminding the world why that solidarity matters.
An extraordinary show of solidarity with Israel in Lima, Peru. 🇵🇪🇮🇱
Tens of thousands of people gathered for the March of Life, bringing together evangelical Christians, members of Peru’s Jewish community, and friends of Israel to honor the memory of the Holocaust, stand against antisemitism, and express their support for Israel.
Thousands of miles from Jerusalem, the gathering sent a powerful message: Israel and the Jewish people have friends around the world who refuse to remain silent in the face of antisemitism and hatred.
At a time when Jewish communities around the world are confronting rising hostility, displays of solidarity like this matter.
Thank you to the people of Peru – and especially the evangelical Christian community that turned out in such extraordinary numbers — for standing with Israel and the Jewish people. 🇵🇪🇮🇱❤️
As the UK government moves to strengthen protections against antisemitism in schools, it is facing a legal challenge over its decision to encourage schools and colleges to adopt the IHRA working definition of antisemitism.
The Good Law Project has sent a pre-action letter to the Department for Education, arguing that use of the definition could restrict freedom of expression and legitimate criticism of Israel.
The government’s decision followed Sir David Bell’s independent review of antisemitism in English schools and colleges, which found antisemitism to be a significant and growing problem. Nearly three in five Jewish pupils aged 16-19 surveyed said they had experienced or witnessed antisemitism.
The IHRA definition is a non-legally binding framework intended to help identify antisemitism, including contemporary forms involving Israel. It also explicitly states that criticism of Israel comparable to criticism directed at any other country is not antisemitic.
Critics of the definition argue that some of its examples could discourage legitimate political speech. Supporters say it gives educators clearer tools for recognizing when criticism of Israel crosses into antisemitism.
Jewish students deserve schools where antisemitism is recognized and confronted, while legitimate political discussion remains possible.
The challenge now is ensuring that schools can do both.
US President Donald Trump says the United States will end its $4 billion in annual military aid to Israel by the end of 2026, under an agreement he says he reached with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Trump argued that Israel no longer needs the financial assistance, while emphasizing that the United States would continue selling weapons to Israel and provide help if needed.
The existing 10-year US-Israel military aid agreement, worth $38 billion, runs through 2028. It remains unclear how the proposed change would be implemented, and there has been no official public confirmation of the details from Netanyahu’s office.
Israel has long been one of America’s closest strategic allies. Its intelligence, military technology, and operational capabilities contribute to the security of both countries.
The future of US-Israel defense cooperation deserves serious discussion, grounded in the mutual strategic value of the alliance.
