Columbia Journalism Review’s Henry Luce Foundation-Boeing Link-Pt.1

An article by Jesse Rubin, which was posted on the Mondoweiss website on April 19, 2018, noted that, as long ago as 2018, Barnard College “students voted overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution calling on the university to divest from companies complicit in Palestinian human rights violations” such as Boeing.

Yet Columbia Journalism Review [CJR] magazine’s new executive editor—Freedom House Trustee and Council on Foreign Relations member Sewell Chan—has also been a member since November 2023 of a Henry Luce Foundation board of directors, whose Co-Chair of the Board since 2022, Terry Adamson, was the Vice President of Global Law Affairs and General Counsel of Boeing between 2016 and October 2020.

And according to the American Friends Service Committee website:

“Between 2010 and 2021, the U.S. supplied the Israeli government with at least 8,550 Boeing GBU-39 SDBs. The two largest deals, for 3,450 and 4,100 bombs, were signed in the wake of Israel's large-scale 2014 and 2012 attacks on Gaza, respectively…In addition, Boeing's anti-ship Harpoon missile systems are installed on the Israeli Navy's Sa'ar 4.5 missile ships, which are used to enforce Israel's illegal naval blockade of the Gaza Strip...In 2017, the U.S. gave Israel an unspecified number of Boeing Harpoon missiles worth $251,591…

“Boeing AH-64 Apache attack helicopters, equipped with Boeing Hellfire air-to-ground missiles, are routinely used by the Israeli military in assaults on Palestinian civilians and civilian infrastructure. These weapons were used extensively in all of Israel's major assaults on Gaza, including in 2022, 2021, 2014, 2012, and 2008–2009…Between 2001 and 2021, the U.S. transferred at least 21 Boeing Apache helicopters to the Israeli military. In 2020, Boeing was awarded a Foreign Military Sales contract for logistical, program, engineering, and technical support services related to the Israeli Air Force's fleet of Apache helicopters…

“The world's fifth largest weapons manufacturer, Boeing manufactures F-15 fighter jets and Apache AH-64 attack helicopters, which the Israeli Air Force has used extensively in all of its attacks on Gaza and Lebanon, including in 2023.

“Boeing manufactures the Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) kits, which convert unguided bombs of the MK-80 series, made by General Dynamics, into guided munitions. Israel has been using these bombs extensively, including in 2023: The Nov. 1 bombing of Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp, which killed hundreds of Palestinian civilians...Bombings on Oct. 10 and 22 that killed 24 people of the al-Najjar family and 19 people of the Abu Mu'eileq family in Deir al-Balah...

“Boeing also makes the 250-pound GBU-39 guided small diameter bomb (SDB), which is also extensively used by the Israeli Air Force…Israel dropped two such bombs in its May 26 airstrike of the Tel al-Sultan refugee camp in Rafah. The attack caused a massive fire that resulted in the death of at least 45 people, mostly civilians.

“Immediately after Oct. 7, Boeing expedited delivery of 1,000 small diameter bombs, and another 1,800 JDAM kits, to Israel. Both deliveries were part of an older order that Israel placed in 2021 during its previous large-scale attack on Gaza.”

Besides being Co-Chair of the Board of a foundation on whose board Columbia Journalism Review’s executive editor has sat since November 2023, former Boeing Vice President of Global Law Affairs and General Counsel Adamson “has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Asia Foundation since 1985 and served as Chairman of its Board of Trustees from 1995–2000,” “is a member of the Board of Trustees and the Executive Committee of the Carter Center,” and “served as personal attorney of President and Mrs. Jimmy Carter since 1981,” according to the Henry Luce Foundation website. (end of part 1 of article. To be continued.)