The mayor of Miami Beach, Fla., is threatening to boot a nonprofit art house cinema from city-owned property over its decision to screen the Academy Award-winning documentary "No Other Land."

The Miami Herald reported that Mayor Steven Meiner wrote in a Tuesday newsletter to the city's residents that he believes the film, which addresses the longstanding conflict between Israelis and Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, promotes antisemitism and that leaders from O Cinema on South Beach reneged on an agreement with him to prevent its showing.

"I am a staunch believer in free speech," Meiner, who is Jewish, wrote in his newsletter. "But normalizing hate and then disseminating antisemitism in a facility........

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