Miami Beach mayor seeks to evict cinema for screening No Other Land

Thomson Reuters

· Posted: Mar 14, 2025 5:35 AM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner has sought to evict an creation location cinema from metropolis spot for screening Oscar-winning No Other Land, a movie astir the Israeli displacement of a Palestinian assemblage successful the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

He besides wants to halt aboriginal assistance payments to the non-profit O Cinema successful South Beach, Fla. City commissioners are expected to ballot connected authorities introduced by Meiner adjacent week, according to a solution papers made nationalist connected Thursday.

Meiner has described the movie arsenic one-sided propaganda and an onslaught connected Jewish people, portion the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida and different civilian rights advocates person condemned his actions arsenic being against escaped speech.

The film's co-directors, Palestinian activistic Basel Adra and Israeli writer Yuval Abraham, disregard allegations that it is antisemitic.

Kareem Tabsch, co-founder of O Cinema, told Axios the non-profit was "hoping to prosecute successful a thoughtful speech with our politician and elected officials" earlier the vote.

But the cinema was consenting to instrumentality "whatever avenues" indispensable to stay successful South Beach and would question to support its state of look and close to exist, Tabsch was quoted arsenic saying.

Reuters was not capable to instantly scope Tabsch for comment.

Despite winning the Oscar for documentary diagnostic movie this month, No Other Land has not been picked up by mainstream U.S. distributors.

The movie shows Israeli soldiers tearing down homes and evicting residents to make a subject grooming crushed and the encroachment of Jewish settlers connected the Palestinian community.

On October 7, 2023, Palestinian Hamas militants attacked Israel, sidesplitting 1,200 radical and taking astir 250 hostages, according to Israeli tallies. The bloodshed triggered the latest signifier of a decades-old conflict.

Israel's consequent subject battle connected Gaza has killed implicit 48,000 Palestinians, Gaza officials say, portion internally displacing Gaza's full population, causing a hunger situation and starring to accusations of genocide and warfare crimes that Israel denies.

O Cinema's website, arsenic of Thursday, listed upcoming screenings of the movie connected March 19-20.

Meiner's actions were reported earlier by the Miami Herald.