Canada’s legal challenge to Israeli settlement land sales exposes complicity in colonial land grabs and global impunity

The complaint ignores the **Palestinian right to land** as a foundational principle of Indigenous sovereignty, rooted in UN resolutions like 273 (1948) and 181 (1947), which affirmed Palestinian self-determination. Indigenous legal systems, such as those of the Haudenosaunee or Māori, treat land as an ancestor and a collective trust, incompatible with the commodification of occupied territories. The case could have centered on **restorative justice frameworks**, like those used in South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, to address dispossession. Instead, it frames the issue through Western property law, erasing Palestinian land tenure systems that predate colonialism.