Miami City Commissioner David Suarez has confirmed to ARTnews that he paid to send billboard trucks to personally attack pro-Palestinian protest organizers outside the Art Basel Miami Beach fair in December. A filing in Southern Florida District Court from earlier this month had made the accusation, reported the Intercept. Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) was one of four groups that organized a rally outside the fair. The trucks called JVP an “extremist group” and called members Alan Levine and his wife, Donna Nevel, “Jew haters.” Related Articles The groups were calling for a boycott over financial ties between Swiss bank UBS, which sponsors Art Basel, and Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems.  “Before everyone begins the predictable gymnastics routine where antisemitism gets rebranded as ‘expressive freedom,’ let me preempt it: They absolutely have the right to speak, protest, and express themselves any way the Constitution allows. And so do I,” said Suarez in an email to ARTnews. “I will defend their legal right to say things I believe are evil, antisemitic, and disgusting,” said Suarez. “But free …