CHICAGO (CBS) — Boeing shareholders overwhelmingly voted down a proposal to disclose more information about the company’s weapons sales to Israel on Monday, but anti-war activists behind the idea pledged to keep up the fight.
The resolution received only 5 percent of the vote at Monday’s annual shareholder meeting, but members of the Antiwar Committee Chicago said that was enough to allow activist shareholders to reintroduce it next year.
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Newland Smith, one of a few other AWC members who bought Boeing stock so they could introduce the resolution demanding more transparency and a risk analysis of sales to Israel, said many of the bombs dropped on Gaza in the summer of 2014 – killing more than 2,000 people – were made with Boeing components.
“Israeli forces used Mk84 bombs equipped with a guidance system built by a Boeing company, called a JDAM – Joint Direct Attack Munition,” Smith said.
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