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This two-part keynote panel directly addresses these issues by bringing together a panel of Palestinian, Indigenous Canadian, and allied scholars and practitioners to reflect on issues of settler colonialism, imperialism and structural injustice. The speakers will delve into the historical and contemporary realities in the Indigenous territories of Palestine and Canada as a lens to understand the function and evolution of settler colonial capitalism in relation to land and food systems. By exploring how capitalist strategies of accumulation and dispossession operate across settler colonial space and time, the panels will consider pathways and strategies for reviving, repairing, and sustaining life and justice for colonized peoples within diverse colonial contexts. The concept of food sovereignty goes well beyond peoples’ right to food to address issues of power and control of food systems. Through food, the speakers will explore the necessity of working together across geographies and the intersection of struggles for self-determination, land rights, and cultural survival in Palestine and Canada. Featuring Ahmed Abu Shaban, Fathi Nimer, Shayma Nader, Shady Hafez, Moayyad Bsharat, and Danya Nadar. This session is co-sponsored with the Canadian Association for the Study of International Development (CASID) and Canadian Sociological Association (CSA).