About a week after the film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, Meiner condemned it as "a false one-sided propaganda attack on the Jewish people that is not consistent with the values of our City and residents." Meiner also wrote:

"The film director's comments at the Oscars prove the antisemitic nature of the film using Jew-hatred propaganda and lies such as 'ethnic cleansing.' Unfortunately, Jews for thousands of years have heard this antisemitic rhetoric; I am just surprised that O Cinema, utilizing Miami Beach taxpayer funding, would willingly disseminate such hateful propaganda."

To its shame, the O Cinema initially agreed to remove the film from its programming. A day later, however, the theater reversed course, claiming that its earlier response was "made under duress" and citing its "fundamental belief that every voice deserves to be heard." Meiner withdrew his resolution after five city commissioners stated their opposition and said he would instead focus on encouraging the cinema to show films that reflect differing perspectives on the occupation.

Many libertarians would argue that no cultural institution should receive taxpayer funding, especially when such funding will inevitably be used to promote viewpoints that some segments of the taxpaying public will disagree with. That argument would hold water if Meiner's opposition were rooted in a belief that taxpayer-funded entities should not be permitted to exhibit any documentaries that contain politically sensitive content. Unfortunately, Meiner only appears to care about profligate government expenditures when they manage to inconvenience Israel.

Case in point, Meiner, who was first elected to the Miami Beach City Commission in 2019, did not express any reservations when the O Cinema showed Plan C, a pro-abortion documentary, and invited the film's director for a post-screening discussion. Surely, Miami Beach's taxpayer base includes a sizable number of pro-life voters who might object to such programming. Why is Meiner's outrage reserved exclusively for a documentary that paints a foreign country in a negative light?

The pro-Israel movement's efforts to censor No Other Land should not come as a surprise. The film has been facing pushback since it first premiered in early 2024. Last February, when co-directors Yuval Abraham and Basel Adra accepted the Documentary Award at the Berlin International Film Festival, Abraham, an Israeli Jew, remarked on the Israeli government's apartheid-style treatment of Palestinians like Adra:

"I am under civilian law; Basel is under military law. We live 30 minutes from one another but I have voting rights. Basel does not have voting rights. I am free to move where I want in this land. Basel, like millions of Palestinians, is locked in the occupied West Bank."

Berlin Mayor Kai Wegner responded to Abraham's speech by tweeting, "Anti-Semitism has no place in Berlin, and that also applies to the art scene." German Minister of Culture Claudia Roth claimed that Abraham and Adra's speeches were "shockingly one-sided and characterised by deep hatred of Israel." Ironically, both Wegner and Roth could be seen applauding the speech during the actual ceremony.