Pro-Palestinian demonstrators cheer NYC marathon runners
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More than 60,000 athletes from across the globe took to the streets on Sunday for the 2026 New York City Marathon, amid visible demonstrations of solidarity with Palestine along the course.
Organizers and allies from a New York City-based group dedicated to building a South Asian Left gathered along the sidelines waving Palestinian flags, actively cheering on marathoners while staging an organized political protest against the event's corporate sponsorship.
Demonstrators demanded that race organizers sever ties with the marathon’s primary sponsor, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), part of the Indian multinational Tata conglomerate.
The group says that Tata is directly complicit in 'Israel’s' ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people, urging sports institutions to end business partnerships that normalize such ties.
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Beyond demanding a halt to the ongoing genocide, campaigners stressed that the Palestinian right of return stands as the single most critical pillar of liberation, asserting that Zionism can only be dismantled through Palestinian return.
Organizers emphasized that the right of return is a fundamental matter of morality, as well as a right firmly established under international law and United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194.
