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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Today, Ethiopian Jews in Israel will once again gather in Jerusalem to celebrate Sigd, a holiday rooted in faith, tradition, and the centuries-old longing to return to Zion.
In this footage from 2024, Israeli President Isaac Herzog addresses members of the Ethiopian Jewish community as they come together to mark the occasion.
Sigd commemorates the renewal of the covenant between God, the Torah, and the Jewish people. For the Beta Israel community, it also carries a profound and enduring yearning of generations to return to Jerusalem and reconnect with the heart of Jewish life.
Today, that dream lives on in the streets of Jerusalem, where Ethiopian Jews celebrate their heritage as an integral part of Israel’s diverse Jewish community.
Koreans gathered on September 20, 2026, waving Israeli and South Korean flags side by side as they sang “Habayta” (הביתה), a beloved Israeli song whose message of coming home carries profound meaning for the Jewish people and Israelis.
Thousands of miles from Israel, these voices sent a message of comfort, support, and friendship to Israelis and Jewish communities around the world.
This was a beautiful expression of friendship and solidarity from thousands of miles away for the people of Israel. 🇰🇷🇮🇱
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese is once again using her platform to promote rhetoric demonizing Israel and the Jewish people.
She described “Israelisation of our society,” and claimed that the process makes certain populations, “the Palestinian,” extending the comparison to refugees and other marginalized communities in Europe.
Her message is that Israel represents the oppressor, while Palestinians are cast as the perpetual victims. Entire populations become political symbols in a sweeping comparison that reduces an entire group of people to a simplistic narrative of victim and victimizer. This false comparison demonizes an entire nation.
A UN human rights official should be promoting universal human dignity, not framing Israel as the embodiment of oppression and turning the suffering of Palestinians into a political weapon.
The Dean of the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Dentistry, Anil Kishen, has voluntarily stepped down following an investigation into antisemitic imagery included in lecture materials presented to students.
The images included a caricature of a man with an exaggerated hooked nose swimming in money — invoking a longstanding antisemitic stereotype — and another depicting a figure wrapped in what appeared to be an Israeli flag and bound with rope.
The university’s investigation concluded that the images were antisemitic, while finding that Kishen did not intend to promote antisemitism and had limited knowledge of the history and meaning of the imagery. The university also acknowledged the significant hurt the material caused members of its community.
Despite stepping down as dean, Kishen will retain his tenured faculty position and is expected to return to full academic duties during the 2027–28 academic year.
Antisemitic imagery has no place in university teaching materials.
Kishen’s resignation from a leadership position reflects the seriousness of what occurred. But his planned return to the classroom also raises legitimate questions about what meaningful accountability should look like when antisemitic material is presented to students.
Jewish students and faculty deserve academic environments where antisemitic stereotypes are recognized, understood, and never normalized.
Sweden’s Parliament has finalized a constitutional amendment strengthening its laws against Holocaust denial and other forms of hate speech.
Beginning January 1, 2027, Sweden’s constitutional protections governing the press and other forms of expression will explicitly recognize denial, justification, or gross trivialization of the Holocaust and certain other international crimes as potential forms of unlawful agitation against a protected group.
The change also strengthens protections for individual victims, including the possibility of seeking damages.
The amendment completes a constitutional process that began with an initial parliamentary vote in 2024. Similar provisions have already applied under Sweden’s criminal code since July 2024.
Sweden’s approach to hateful speech differs significantly from the United States, where even deeply offensive and false expression generally receives broad First Amendment protection.
People can legitimately debate where the law should draw that line.
But the Holocaust itself is not a matter of opinion. It is historical fact.
Holocaust denial and distortion should be confronted wherever they appear — with historical truth, education, public condemnation, and an unwavering commitment to preserving the memory of the six million Jews who were murdered.
Holocaust survivor Eva Geller, 90, has died from complications stemming from injuries sustained in the antisemitic terrorist attack at Bondi Beach in Sydney last December. Her death brings the massacre’s death toll to 16.
Geller was among those shot when terrorists opened fire on a Hanukkah celebration on December 14, 2025. She spent nearly a year battling the devastating consequences of her injuries, enduring repeated hospitalizations and fighting to regain her ability to walk.
She had survived the Holocaust as a child, escaped Nazi persecution, and built a life and family in Australia. After surviving one of history’s darkest chapters, she was targeted simply for being part of a Jewish celebration.
Our hearts are with Eva’s family, friends, and the Australian Jewish community.
May her memory be a blessing. And may the world never forget the hatred that took her life.
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.
