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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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.
The BBC has investigated antisemitism at more than 10 universities across the UK, and the accounts from Jewish students are deeply disturbing.
Students describe physical intimidation, swastikas drawn at parties, hateful graffiti on university property, and an atmosphere where simply being openly Jewish can feel isolating and unsafe. Ollie, the former president of Cardiff University’s Jewish Society, says antisemitism came to define much of his university experience.
Universities should be places where students are challenged intellectually, not where they fear harassment because of their identity. Every student deserves to feel safe on campus, and Jewish students should never have to choose between their education and their security.
A Telegraph investigation alleges that Unit 700, the smuggling and logistics arm of the IRGC’s Quds Force, has expanded routes used to move covert operatives into Britain, including through small-boat crossings and other routes across Europe.
According to the report, Iranian officials now view those routes as weapons in their own right. One Iranian official told The Telegraph: “We do not need a missile to target London.”
The UK has already sanctioned Unit 700 and, on July 17, formally designated the IRGC as a national security threat under new national-security powers aimed at foreign state-backed threats.
The most explosive claims in the report should be treated as allegations and British analyst interviewed cast out over the claims of agent infiltration. But the broader pattern is clear: the Islamic Republic does not rely only on missiles and drones. It uses proxies, criminal networks, smuggling routes, intimidation, and agents to project power far beyond Iran’s borders.
The IRGC is not just a regional threat. It is a global one.
Two years ago yesterday, a Hezbollah rocket tore through a soccer field in the Druze town of Majdal Shams, killing 12 children whose only crime was spending a summer evening playing with friends.
They were:
* Alma Ayman Fakhr al-Din (11)
* Ameer Rabeea Abu Saleh (16)
* Fajr Laith Abu Saleh (16)
* Finis Adham Safadi (11)
* Guevara Ibrahim (11)
* Hazem Akram Abu Saleh (15)
* Iseel Nasha’at Ayoub (12)
* John (Johnny) Wadeea Ibrahim (13)
* Milar Muadad al-Sha’ar (10)
* Naji Taher al-Halabi (11)
* Nathem Fakher Saeb (16)
* Yazan Nayeif Abu Saleh (12)
Israel’s Druze community has long been an integral part of the country. Druze citizens serve in the IDF, work in every sector of Israeli society, and have been repeatedly targeted by Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations simply because they live in Israel. Terrorist rockets do not distinguish between Jews, Druze, Muslims, Christians, or anyone else. They target civilians indiscriminately.
These children were not soldiers or political figures. They were sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, classmates, and teammates. They deserve to be remembered not as statistics, but by their names. May their memories forever be a blessing.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has executed two more young protesters: Abolfazl Sepahi-Badjani, 23, and Amirhossein Safari-Hosseinabad.
According to Iranian human rights organizations, the two men were publicly hanged in Isfahan’s Alikhani Square, a practice human rights groups have condemned as a form of state terror meant to instill fear in the public.
The two were arrested in connection with January’s anti-regime protests and convicted in a case involving the deaths of four members of the security forces. But UN experts and human rights organizations have raised serious concerns about the fairness of the proceedings, including allegations of coerced confessions, ill-treatment, closed hearings, and the lack of clarity over each defendant’s individual responsibility.
The Islamic Republic has a long record of using torture, coerced confessions, sham trials, and executions to crush political dissent. As the regime continues to execute its own people, the world cannot afford to look away.
The same terror it inflicts on its own people, the regime exports throughout the region through its support for armed proxy groups.
May the memories of these two young men be blessed, and may the brave Iranian people prevail in their fight against their oppressors. 🕯️
