Miami Beach mayor wants to end lease, funding for theater showing anti-Israeli film

March 12 (UPI) -- Miami Beach's mayor wants to terminate a lease agreement and discontinue financial support for an independent film theater because it showed a controversial Oscar-winning documentary about the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis in the West Bank.

Mayor Steven Meiner called the film, No Other Land, "a false one-sided propaganda attack on the Jewish people." The documentary has been shown at O Cinema, an art house film cinema in a government building in South Beach, and is planning more screenings this weekend, beginning on Friday.

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