The mayor of Miami Beach, Steven Meiner No other landA film on the Israeli displacement of a Palestinian community in the West Bank occupied by Israeli.
He also wishes to interrupt future subsidy payments to non -profit Cinema in South Beach, Florida.
Meiner described the film as a unilateral propaganda and an attack on the Jewish people, while the American civilian Liberties Union of Florida and other defenders of civil rights have condemned his actions as being against freedom of expression.
The film’s co -directors, the Palestinian activist Basel Adra and the Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham, reject the allegations that he is anti -Semitic.
Kareem Tabsch, co-founder of O Cinema, told Axios that the non-profit organization “hoped to engage in a thoughtful conversation with our mayor and our elected officials” before the vote.
But the cinema was willing to take “whatever the avenues” necessary to stay in South Beach and would seek to protect its freedom of expression and its right to exist, said Tabsch.
Reuters could not immediately reach Tabsch to comment.
Despite the victory of the Oscar feature film for documentary this month, No other land has not been recovered by traditional American distributors.
The film shows that Israeli soldiers demolish the houses and evoke the residents to create a military training ground and the encroachment of the Jewish settlers on the Palestinian community.
On October 7, 2023, Palestinian activists from Hamas attacked Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking around 250 hostages, according to Israeli accounts. The bloodshed sparked the last phase of a decades old conflict.
The military assault of Israel on Gaza killed more than 48,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza officials, while moving internally the population of Gaza, causing a hunger crisis and leading to accusations of genocide and war crimes that Israel denies.
The cinema website, from Thursday, listed the upcoming projections of the film on March 19 to 20.
Meiner’s actions were reported earlier by Miami Herald.
