Pro-Palestinian site says Crown's ties may foster bias at Center
by Rachel Marder
News | 4/12/05
Posted online at 7:20 AM EST on 4/12/05
The document says the Crown Center will "provide the best thought and insight on the region, free of ideological bias or preconceptions and free of politics."
Reinharz has known Crown for ten years. Both served on the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations.
General Dynamics is a world supplier of land and amphibious combat systems and a manufacturer of armored vehicles, guns and ammunition handling systems.
Crown has been on the Board of Directors of General Dynamics since 1974.
In the center's opening conference on April 4 through 5, Shai Feldman said the center would "conduct research that is dispassionate and non-polemical."
Shai Feldman emphasized that the center would not advocate one point of view, but rather involve a range of perspectives in its scholarship.
Lester Crown's son James, the chairman of Henry Crown and Co., and Charles Goodman, the vice president of the company, also serve on the Board of Directors of General Dynamics.
That board also includes advisors of the U.S. military, including former U.S. Army Chief of Staff John Keane, former Chief of Naval Operations Jay Johnson and former U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Lester Lyles.
Reinharz has known Crown for ten years. Both served on the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations.
General Dynamics is a world supplier of land and amphibious combat systems and a manufacturer of armored vehicles, guns and ammunition handling systems.
Crown has been on the Board of Directors of General Dynamics since 1974.
In the center's opening conference on April 4 through 5, Shai Feldman said the center would "conduct research that is dispassionate and non-polemical."
Shai Feldman emphasized that the center would not advocate one point of view, but rather involve a range of perspectives in its scholarship.
Lester Crown's son James, the chairman of Henry Crown and Co., and Charles Goodman, the vice president of the company, also serve on the Board of Directors of General Dynamics.
That board also includes advisors of the U.S. military, including former U.S. Army Chief of Staff John Keane, former Chief of Naval Operations Jay Johnson and former U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Lester Lyles.
