Educational narratives frame one people’s liberation as terror while praising the other’s.

Evidence

As a result, the Israeli narrative is presented as a set of ideas that are universally true. It provides … moral, religious, and political foundations for the exclusive ethnic Jewish claims in Palestine. [The Zionist] struggle is portrayed as acts of liberation from an oppressive rule, that is from the Ottomans, the British, and the Arabs. Simultaneously, the textbooks portray Palestinian resistance to colonialism and Zionism as illegitimate acts of terror. In other words, while Jewish national aspiration for freedom and self-determination are praised, similar Palestinian aspirations are denied and, in many cases, denounced. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 940

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A crisp, painful demonstration that the exact same acts (armed struggle against an occupying power) are narrated as liberation for one people and terror for another — the asymmetry of legitimacy is manufactured through education itself.
• SEED: An article angle on how ‘terrorism’ and ‘liberation’ are narrative assignments rather than fixed facts about acts — comparing across contexts (colonial, anti-colonial, settler).