Priest recalls violent origins of Land Day
Shehadeh remembers leading first protest against Israeli grab of Palestinian properties
By Sharif Hamadeh
Special to The Daily Star
Thursday, March 31, 2005
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On March 30, 1976, a priest lead a group of political activists in the first mass protest of Arab citizens in Israel also known as Land Day to protest the confiscation of their land by the Jewish state. Twenty-nine years later, the priest in question, Reverend Canon Dr. Shehadeh Shehadeh recalls how it all happened.
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