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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Bret Stephens challenges one of the most serious accusations leveled against Israel by asking a simple question: what does genocide actually mean?
He points to atrocities such as the Rwandan genocide, where hundreds of thousands of Tutsis were slaughtered in roughly 100 days, and to the Iranian regime’s brutal massacres of its own civilians.
Those horrors did not produce anything like the sustained campus movement now devoted to accusing Israel of genocide.
Israel is fighting a terrorist organization that embeds fighters, weapons, tunnels, and command centers inside civilian areas. And yet, the IDF continues to take extraordinary measures to reduce civilian harm.
One can debate Israeli policy. One can criticize Israeli military decisions. But equating Israel’s war against Hamas with genocide erodes the distinction between the tragedy of civilian casualties in war and the specific intent required by the legal definition of genocide.
As Stephens argues, words matter.
When “genocide” is stripped of its meaning and turned into a political slogan, it does a disservice not only to Israel, but to the victims of actual genocides throughout history.
Colombia’s incoming government has announced plans to withdraw the country’s intervention in South Africa’s ICJ case against Israel, reversing a major policy of the previous administration.
The incoming government has also pledged to restore full diplomatic relations with Israel, reopen channels of cooperation, and establish an embassy in Jerusalem.
At a time when too many governments are choosing isolation and accusation, this is a welcome reminder that diplomacy is strongest when it encourages dialogue, accountability, and cooperation rather than deepening division.
The Blue Square Alliance Against Hatred found that about 29% of American adults aged 18-44 now view Jews as a threat to the unity of American society.
Our society is witnessing the mainstreaming of ideas that have historically led to discrimination, exclusion, and violence.
Hatred doesn’t appear overnight. It spreads when conspiracy theories go unchallenged, when antisemitism is excused as activism, and when people stay silent as Jews are singled out in every area of public life.
U.S. district court judge Roy Altman explains how Israel implements various procedures to reduce civilian casualties amidst combat operations.
The IDF employs a combination of careful planning, intelligence, warnings to civilians, and restraint that few militaries would attempt given similar circumstances.
Yet despite these unprecedented efforts, Israel continues to face accusations of “genocide” before the ICC and ICJ while those proceedings consume years of time and resources.
Judge Altman raises the important question that if international institutions are truly committed to preventing genocide, why are they devoting so much effort to pursuing baseless allegations against Israel instead of holding actual perpetrators of genocide and mass atrocities accountable?
Yesterday marked 32 years since the deadliest terrorist attack in Argentina’s history.
On July 18, 1994, a car bomb destroyed the AMIA Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires, murdering 85 people and injuring more than 300.
Just two years earlier, another bombing targeted the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, killing 22 innocent people.
In 2024, an Argentine court concluded that both attacks were planned by the Islamic Republic of Iran and carried out by Hezbollah.
These were deliberate terror attacks against Jewish and Israeli targets, orchestrated by a regime that continues to fund, arm, and support terrorist proxies across the region and around the world.
The victims deserve to be remembered.
May their memories always be a blessing. 🕯️
In a conversation with Israeli journalist Ohad Hemo, Gazans now living in Antwerp described a reality that shatters the simplistic narratives still dominating much of the West. One said that most Gazans would leave if they had the chance. Another revealed that the Hamas commander who once interrogated him now lives freely in Belgium, holding Belgian citizenship while allegedly raising money for Hamas from Europe.
These aren’t the voices of politicians or commentators, these are the voices of everyday Gazans.
Widespread awareness of the truth starts with listening to the people whose real-life experiences inform and define the conflict.
Long before today’s global superstars, Jewish players, coaches, founders, journalists, and supporters helped shape modern soccer across Europe. Clubs like Hakoah Vienna and MTK Budapest became symbols of Jewish excellence, while visionaries like Hugo Meisl and Béla Guttmann left an enduring mark on the sport.
That legacy was nearly erased. The Nazis expelled Jewish athletes, dissolved Jewish clubs, confiscated their facilities, and murdered countless members of the Jewish sporting community in an attempt to erase Jewish contributions from public life.
They failed.
Today, Jewish and Israeli athletes continue to inspire millions, from historic clubs with deep Jewish roots to players like Manor Solomon proudly representing Israel on the world stage.
As the world celebrates soccer’s biggest event, it’s worth remembering that Jewish people played a part in helping to grow the beautiful game. ⚽🇮🇱
For more than two billion Christians, the Holy Land is the setting of some of their faith’s most sacred events.
As 2030 approaches, Israel has begun preparing to mark 2,000 years since the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River, including through a working group led by Ambassador George Deek to deepen dialogue with churches and Christian leaders around the world.
At a time when Israel is so often reduced to conflict and controversy, this milestone is a reminder of something deeper: Israel is home to sacred history, active Christian communities, and holy sites that continue to welcome pilgrims from every nation.
The anniversary will be a celebration of Christian history, and a reminder of the enduring connection between the Holy Land and billions of believers around the world. 🇮🇱✝️
