Miami Beach, Florida: Proposed resolution terminating lease and funding for local theater for showing controversial film 

In March 2025, the Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner introduced a resolution to terminate the city’s lease with an independent local theater and to halt its grant funding after it rebuffed pressure from the mayor to cancel its screenings of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land. The mayor characterized the film’s depiction of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as “antisemitic” and “one-sided propaganda.”

On March 18, one day before the city commission’s scheduled vote on the resolution, FIRE wrote the city explaining the First Amendment protects a theater’s right to curate its own film selection and that government entities may not withhold public benefits to private entities for viewpoint-discriminatory reasons. On March 19, almost all commissioners voiced opposition to the resolution and the mayor subsequently withdrew it.