The mayor of Miami Beach is urging an art house theater in the city to cancel planned screenings of an Oscar-winning documentary about the ongoing conflict between Palestinians and Israelis in the West Bank that he calls ‘hateful propaganda.”
On March 5, Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner sent a strongly worded letter to O Cinema, an independent film cinema located in South Beach. He asks its CEO, Vivian Marthell, to remove the film “No Other Land,” which is scheduled to premiere Friday night at 7pm and has showings through next week.
But, despite pressure from Meiner, the South Beach theater has decided to move forward and run the film, which won an Academy Award early this week but has generated widespread criticism in Israel and from Jewish groups. The controversial film has secured only limited screenings in the United States despite its high-praise from film critics and viewers…