Miami Beach, Fla. , Miami Beach, Florida’s mayor, wants to eliminate a lease for an independent film theater and cut financial aid, who examined the Oscar winning documentary about the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis.
Mayor Steven Manner presented a resolution describing the film as “Koi other land” antisemitic. The city commissioners will discuss the proposal on Wednesday during their next meeting.
The O Cinema located in the Miami Beach Historic City Hall was not opened on last Friday. Mayner arrived several days before the premiere to discourage Vivian Marthel, CEO of O Cinema by showing the film.
“Miami is one of the highest concentrations of Jewish inhabitants in the United States in the city of Miami Beach,” Mener said in his letter to Martel. ” No other land ‘film is a unilateral publicity attack on Jewish people that do not conform to the values of our city and inhabitants. “
Marthel initially agreed not to screen the film in Meneer’s response, but went as the performance. Marthel did not immediately respond to an email on Thursday.
According to the proposed resolution of the mayor, in December and January, the city of Miami Beach carried out two grants of about $ 80,000 for O cinema. About half the money has already been paid, but the resolution will stop the rest. The city began leasing the place for O cinema in 2019, which had the ability to end the contract with a 180 -day notice, which wants to do Mener.
“No other lands,” which was shot between 2019 and 2023 and released last year, directed by a group of Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers: Basel Edra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor.
Abraham said in an email, “When the Mayor uses the term antismitism to silence Palestinians and Israelis, who proudly oppose the possession and apartheid, fight for justice and equality, he is taking it out of meaning,” Abraham said in an email. “I think it’s very dangerous.”
The film is a document of destruction of Palestinian villages at West Bank by the film Israeli’s army. It won the Academy Award for earlier awards with the best documentary facility.
While the film has widely praised the film critics, it has also disputed.
Israeli Culture Minister Mikki Zohar said in a social media post, “Freedom of expression is an important value, but Israel’s defamation art is not in a tool for international promotion.”
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