Miami Beach Mayor Seeks To Cancel Lease, Cut Funding of Local Cinema in Battle Over Screening of Contentious, Oscar-Winning Film About the West Bank
The uproar centers around ‘No Other Land,’ which won Best Documentary and has been criticized as anti-Israel and antisemitic.
A battle is brewing at Miami Beach over a local theater’s showing of a documentary about Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the West Bank, “No Other Land,” that has drawn boycotts from both Israelis and Palestinians. Now the theater’s lease and public funding is at stake.
The drama began last week when the mayor of Miami Beach, Steven Meiner, sent a letter to the chief executive of South Beach’s O Cinema, Vivian Marthell, urging her to reconsider the theater’s scheduled screenings of the film.
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