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Miami Beach Mayor Threatens To Close Down Cinema For Showing Oscar Winner ‘No Other Land’; Director Says Banning Doc “Won’t Work”
Miami Beach, FL is threatening to shut down a theater for showing the Oscar-winning documentary 'No Other Land,' branding the film "antisemitic."
In an Associated Press review, critic Mark Kennedy described the film as “a piece of resistance but also humanization.” He wrote, “It is a wrenching movie to see: Soldiers, with vague permission from a court that Palestinians have no say in, push old women and children, not answering their pleas to stop and merely waving away residents whose families have lived in the region since the 1830s.” Noting “I watched the film,” he wrote No Other Land “can best be described as a false one-sided propaganda attack on the Jewish people that is not consistent with the values of our City and residents.” Meiner continued, “I am a staunch believer in free speech. In a letter of March 6 to the mayor, Vivian Marthell, CEO of O Cinema, appeared to concede Meiner’s point, writing, “Due to the concerns of antisemitic rhetoric, we have decided to withdraw the film from our programming.”
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