Mayor Miami Beach, Steven Meiner, tried to evict the House Art House cinema from City Property to display the Oscar winner No other landA film about the Israeli displacement of the Palestinian community in the west shore of West Israel.
He also wants to stop the future payments of the subsidy for the non-profit cinema at South Beach, Florida, and city commissioners should vote on the regulations presented by Meiner next week, in accordance with the document of the resolution published on Thursday on Thursday.
Meiner described this film as a unilateral propaganda and an attack on the Jewish people, while American Civil Liberties Union of Florida and other citizens' supporters condemned his actions against freedom of speech.
Film fellow, Palestinian activist Basel Adra and Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham, reject the allegations that it is anti -Semitic.
Kareem Tabsch, a co-founder of Cinema, told Axios that the non-profit organization “was hoping to conduct a thoughtful conversation with our mayor and selected officials” before voting.
But the cinema was ready to take “all possibilities” necessary to stay in South Beach and would try to protect the freedom of expression and the right to exist, said Tabsch.
Reuters was not able to reach Tabsch immediately for a comment.
Despite winning the Oscar for the feature film this month, No other land He was not received by the mainstream of American distributors.
The film shows Israeli soldiers entertaining houses and by erecting residents to create a military training group and violating Jewish settlers in the Palestinian community.
On October 7, 2023, Palestinian Hamas fighters attacked Israel, killing 1200 people and taking about 250 hostages, according to Israeli Wals. Blood overflow caused the latest phase of a ten -year conflict.
Israel's later military assault killed over 48,000 Palestinians, Gaza officials say, while internally displaces the entire gauze population, causing a crisis of hunger and led to accusation of genocide and war crimes, which Israel denies.
For the cinema website, from Thursday, she mentioned the upcoming film shows on March 19-20.
Meiner's actions were previously reported by Miami Herald.