Activists urge New York City Marathon to drop Indian company Tata over Israel links
India's largest business conglomerate, Tata Group, is complicit in Israel's ongoing occupation of Palestine and should be dropped as the lead sponsor of the New York City Marathon, activists have said.
The TCS New York City Marathon, organised by New York Road Runners (NYRR), a non-profit based in the city, is considered the largest marathon in the world.
The New York City-based group South Asian Left (Salam) alleges that Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a subsidiary of the Tata Group, maintains several business relationships with the Israeli government, including the manufacturing of weapons for the Israeli military.
"We are demanding Tata disclose all its connections with the Zionist entity and divest from them. We are demanding the NYRR to drop TCS," Aman, an organiser with Salam, told Middle East Eye.