The mayor of Miami Beach has scuttled his proposal to shut down an indie cinema for showing the Oscar-winning Israeli-Palestinian documentary No Other Land. Mayor Steven Meiner withdrew his plan during a lively meeting of the Miami Beach City Commission today.

Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner withdrew a decision to terminate O Cinema's lease and revoke funding at a commission meeting Wednesday.

Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner said on Wednesday he dropped his threat to evict an art house cinema from city property for screening Oscar-winning "No Other Land," a film about the Israeli displacement of a Palestinian community in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.