About Jacob Baime

Jacob Baime is the Chief Executive Officer of the Israel on Campus Coalition (ICC), the organization that funds, trains, and stands behind pro-Israel students on college campuses. He has led ICC since 2013.

Jacob Baime and the Israel on Campus Coalition

Founded in 2002, ICC is the infrastructure behind pro-Israel students on college campuses: a professional staff and a coalition of more than 40 pro-Israel organizations. It serves all pro-Israel students, not only Jewish students, and it is bipartisan by design. On campus, ICC backs pro-Israel students, whatever their politics.

Under Baime, ICC moves with the speed and discipline of a campaign, because many campus challenges are political: student government votes, campus referendums, and organized campaigns. ICC’s research, field, and digital work run as one operation. Regional Directors work on campuses year-round; a 24/7 National Operations Center means students can always reach someone, and national polling tests which messages about Israel persuade, so students and partner organizations get that tested language.

In the 2025-26 academic year, ICC awarded 697 microgrants to students on 167 campuses. ICC staff engaged 316 campuses and made 362 campus visits, and ICC backed 255 students in campus leadership races. Students earned 253 op-ed and broadcast placements in their own names, and ICC’s channels drew 2.97 billion impressions.

Jacob Baime and the National Leadership Summit

Each summer, ICC’s National Leadership Summit brings student leaders, faculty, and national organizations together in Washington. The 2026 Summit took place in August at the Grand Hyatt Washington under the theme “American. Zionist. Proud.” More than 800 students attended, with more than 1,200 participants in all, and the Summit had a waiting list. The Jewish Journal called it the largest gathering of pro-Israel students in the U.S.

Speakers included Sen. John Fetterman, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, freed hostage Omer Shem Tov, Rachel Goldberg-Polin and Jon Polin, and author Dara Horn. Baime closed the Summit with a conversation with Omer Shem Tov.

Baime told JNS that the Summit “is proof positive that it is possible” to bring pro-Israel Democrats and Republicans together in the same room for a constructive conversation. “We really want to encourage young Democrats, who are Zionists, to be leaders in the Democratic Party and young Republicans, who are Zionists, to be leaders in the Republican Party,” he said. The next Summit is August 8 to 10, 2027, in Washington, D.C.

Career Before ICC

Before joining ICC, Baime worked at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), where he served as National Field Director, leading the organization’s professional field organizers, campus initiatives, and national training programs for college and high school students. He also served as an Area Director in AIPAC’s New England region.

Jacob Baime in the Press

In an August 2026 interview with The Jerusalem Post, Baime said the challenges facing Jewish and pro-Israel students have not subsided since the encampments came down. “Even though we’re not seeing encampments on the campuses right now, the situation remains very challenging,” he said. He pointed to the online information war as a driver: “The campus conversation is completely integrated with the online conversation.” And he remains optimistic: “You can change minds. You can win hearts.”

Baime has written op-eds for Inside Higher Ed and the New York Daily News, and he appeared as a guest on the FDD Morning Brief in August 2026. He is on X at @JacobBaime.