The mayor’s effort to terminate O Cinema’s lease drew a wave of backlash, including dozens of speakers who attended Wednesday’s meeting to support the theater.

The mayor of Miami Beach, FL, is threatening to shut down an arthouse movie theater for showing the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, branding the film as "antisemitic." Mayor Steven Meiner issued a draft resolution calling for his city to terminate a lease agreement with O Cinema,

O Cinema initially agreed to cancel the screening of the film about Palestinian displacement in the West Bank but reversed course.