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A city official<\/span> in Miami Beach, Florida paid thousands of dollars to hire billboard trucks with text attacking specific members of an anti-Zionist Jewish group, according to a new filing in federal court.<\/p>\n David Suarez, a city commissioner for Miami Beach, is accused of hiring the trucks to drive past a Jewish Voice for Peace demonstration outside the Art Basel festival in Miami Beach in December. The trucks accused JVP of being an \u201cextremist group\u201d and singled out members Alan Levine and his wife, Donna Nevel, with the label \u201cJew Hater,\u201d according to court documents that Jewish Voice for Peace South Florida filed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n The trucks arrived while JVP and other Palestine solidarity organizations were protesting Art Basel<\/a> in what has become an annual tradition since 2023. Activists have picketed each year outside the annual art fair, calling for a boycott over financial ties between Art Basel sponsor UBS and Elbit Systems<\/a>, an Israeli weapons manufacturer<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Nevel, a native of Miami Beach who described her early education in Jewish ethics as a driving force behind her activism, accused Suarez of targeting her and her husband over their clashing views of Judaism and Israel\u2019s assault on Gaza.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Commissioner has targeted me and called me a Jew hater because I differ with his views on Israel,\u201d Nevel said. \u201cWhen we saw the billboards, we didn\u2019t know Commissioner Suarez was the one who created and paid for them, but having watched his destructive, taunting behavior in City Commission meetings over and over again, I can\u2019t say I was shocked to learn it was him \u2014 though, even for him, it was extreme.\u201d<\/p>\n Supporting exhibits filed alongside the motion include an invoice from Mobile Billboards of Miami dated December 6, 2025, charging Suarez $4,000 for the rental of three trucks, and an email from the company to a Gmail account that JVP claims is the commissioner\u2019s personal email address.<\/p>\n Suarez and his attorneys did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n