Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner is pushing to evict an independent theater from its city-owned space and cut its funding after it screened 'No Other Land,' an Oscar-winning documentary about Palestinian displacement in the West Bank. Meiner, who is Jewish, is introducing legislation to revoke O Cinema's lease and withdraw more than $40,000 in city grant funding, describing the film as antisemitic. Several days before the screening, Meiner contacted O Cinema CEO Vivian Marthell, urging her not to show the film. Marthell initially accepted Meiner's request, but reversed course, stating that the decision to screen the documentary was about upholding free speech.
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