The campaign is led by the St. Louis Palestine Solidarity Committee, which succeeded in mobilizing the St. Louis Board of Aldermen to pass a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza in January 2024. Boeing plans to develop the warplanes in St. Louis County, at a facility about 15 miles from downtown St. Louis. For the new plant, the St. Louis Planned Industrial Expansion Authority granted ICL Group tax abatements valued at more than $8 million. Because property taxes fund public schools in St. Louis, exempting multibillion-dollar companies from those taxes hurts students. Both St. Louis and St. Louis County’s repeated failures to meet ambient air quality standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency landed them on a list of “serious” offenders in December 2024.