Panel 1 : Zionism as a European project of colonial expansion
Moderated by Stéphanie Latte-Abdallah, CNRS
From the 1830s-1840s, European colonial projects in the " Holy Land ", with their civilizing aims, paved the way for various colonialist currents, notably Zionism. The ambition of this panel is to reflect on the nature of Zionism and its articulation with European expansionist projects of the 19th century. How should we understand Theodore Herzl's project ? How did it evolve to distance itself from European colonialism ? Did it serve the interests of the European powers ?
Rina Cohen Muller
Rina Cohen Muller is a lecturer in the Department of Hebraic and Jewish Studies at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO).
Stéphanie Latte Abdallah
Stéphanie Latte Abdallah is Director of Research at the CNRS (CéSor/EHESS), a political anthropologist and historian specializing in Palestine, the Middle East and contemporary Arab societies. Her recent research focuses on borders, carcerality and prisons in Palestine/Israel. She is interested in emerging citizen mobilizations linked to alternative economies, autonomy, ecology and concrete utopias in Palestine and Lebanon. She coordinates the IMAGIN-E research program. Her two most recent books are La toile carcérale. Une histoire de l'enfermement en Palestine (2021, in English : 2022) and Des morts en guerre. Rétention des corps et figures du martyr en Palestine (2022). With Véronique Bontemps, she edited Gaza. Une guerre coloniale (2025).
