Drop the Maryland Israel Development Center
Part One
Montgomery County’s Executive and County Council have ended funding to the Maryland Israel Development Center (MIDC).
Not because they wanted to. We didn’t have a single champion or friend in office. It was because we organized, showed up, and made the cost of funding it higher than the cost of dropping it.
The State of Maryland still funds the MIDC with our tax dollars. And Israeli weapons and surveillance companies still do business in our backyard.
Watch our Videos (all under 3 minutes)
Overview
Maryland’s role in fueling Federal military aid
Notes the specific war crime by Rafael
Israeli surveillance company sets up shop in North Bethesda, Maryland
Join the Evict Elta Campaign
Go to the Evict Elta Website
Call Merritt Properties (Elta’s landlord). Script here.
Write your General Assembly reps to stop funding the MIDC
Join the Stop AIRIS Labs Campaign
We refuse to be a launchpad for surveillance
About the Maryland Israel Development Center
The Maryland Israel Development Center (MIDC) serves as the broker to bring Israeli companies into Maryland. A number of these companies are weapons manufacturers and, in two instances, are actually the Israel military itself. The State of Maryland as well as counties - most specifically Montgomery - provide the Maryand Israel Development Center (MIDC) with grants and special privileges (e.g., ribbon-cutting ceremonies, additional grants, etc.). Once in our State, these “merchants of death” use their offices as a launch pad for Pentagon contracts and merging with other war profiteers.
The DroptheMIDC campaign shines a light on Maryland’s economic ties to Israeli apartheid. We push state and local officials to divest from the MIDC and companies profiting from occupation, advocate for ethical trade, and mobilize communities to demand accountability and human rights justice.
Coalition Leads
Al Aqsa Swim Club
Arab-American Anti Discrimination Committee (Maryland Chapter)
Coalition Signatories
Anne Arundel for Palestine
Baltimore Nonviolence Center
Baltimore Phil Berrigan Chapter of Veterans for Peace
Baltimore Women in Black
Diaspora Pa’lante Collective
Frederick Ceasefire Now
Friends of Latin America
Friends of Sabeel North America
The Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation
Howard County for a Free Palestine
Jewish Voice for Peace, Baltimore Chapter
Jewish Voice for Peace, University of Maryland Chapter
Maryland2Palestine
Montgomery County DSA
Montgomery County Jewish Collective
Montgomery County Palestine Solidarity Network
Our Revolution Howard County
Our Revolution Maryland
Palestinian Christian Alliance for Peace
Pax Christi, Metro DC-Baltimore
Peace Action Frederick
Peace Action Montgomery
Peace and Justice Coalition of Prince Georges County
Prince Georges 4 Palestine
Southern Maryland DSA
Southern Maryland for Palestine
University of Maryland’s Students for Justice in Palestine (UMD-SJP)
Viva House, Baltimore Catholic Worker
Walt Whitman High School MSA
Who We Are
