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ADL University Missions
Campus Leadership Mission
The Anti-Defamation League’s Campus Leadership Mission to Israel provides student journalists and political leaders with valuable firsthand exposure to one of the most important and still-developing news stories of our time – the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
ADL’s Campus Leadership Mission to Israel takes a select group of diverse politically active undergraduate students and aspiring journalists from across the country on a ten day trip to learn first hand about Israel today and the complexity of issues surrounding Israeli-Palestinian relations and other regional politics by engaging with politicians, decision makers, journalists, students, and ordinary citizens.
ADL mission has led hundreds of student journalists and political leaders-- many of whom have gone on to launch successful careers with leading national news media and in government -- on an exploration of Israel’s history and the issues, crises, and circumstances that have made it one of the most covered nations in the world. The mission offers students an unparallel opportunity to explore Israel firsthand and to meet with those at the frontlines of the conflict.
The overriding purpose of the mission is to expose campus decision makers to modern-day Israel and to the complexity of issues surrounding Israeli-Palestinian relations by engaging with decision-makers, journalists, students and ordinary citizens.
For many students, the mission provides their first real exposure to the myriad and complex issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In Israel, participants meet with decision makers on all sides of the political spectrum, government and military officials, diplomats, Israeli Palestinian and American reporters, local faculty and students, and others. Participants also have the opportunity to tour the country, visit its historic and religious sites, meet its people and learn its history, contemporary achievements and current challenges. The mission opens doors to a wider exploration of the roots of the conflict and the current obstacles to peace, as well as a deeper understanding of Israel as a vibrant democracy, a guardian of sacred religious sites, and a haven and a home for the Jewish people.
Quotes from past participants in the ADL Campus Editors Mission to Poland and Israel:
“ADL’s Mission helps me put the news I cover every day into perspective.”
-Columbia University
“Not a day goes by that I haven’t thought about the trip. That week and a half was a defining experience in my life.”
-Georgetown University
“The Mission has been the highlight of my college experience. It has opened my eyes to so much- especially after realizing that there is so much beauty in humanity even amidst the greatest conflicts.”
-Junior, Colgate University
“The ADL trip remains one of the best experiences of my college years. I have no doubt that it will have a big impact on my future career.”
-Dartmouth University
“The experience shed a bright light on my understanding of the history of the Jewish people across the Diaspora and gave me a clearer understanding of the issues that plague the peace process in the Middle East.”
-Howard University
“With the escalation of tensions in the Middle East, I have flipped through my photograph albums from the trip several times and thought about how much has changed.”
-Harvard University
“The individual investment in student leaders is so important. Not just today, but through the rest of my life I will use the experience and knowledge acquired on ADL’s Leadership Mission to ensure that a solution is found in the Middle East.”
-Junior, Yale University
“I am very impressed with the professionalism of the mission as well as the high level of speakers which addressed our group. I feel much more educated by going and seeing the places in which I learned about in the United States.”
-Senior, Smith College
“By meeting various journalists, lecturers, diplomats, and distinguished individuals, I was able to gain a first hand perspective on the current state of Israel; one that consists of more questions than answers, more heroic people than villains, and more love than despair.”
-Sophomore, University of California Santa Cruz
“As a devout Catholic, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher was my favorite stop. The way in which Christians, Muslims, and Jews come together to commemorate the final stages of Christ’s Via Delorosa was especially poignant to me.”
-Sophomore, Boston College
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