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How the PA brainwashes young kids to admire terrorist murderers

Nan Jacques Zilberdik|

PA school kids taught to admire:

  • Terrorist prisoner and bomb maker Abdallah Barghouti, who was involved in the murder of 68 people
     
  • Terrorist prisoner Marwan Barghouti, who orchestrated three attacks in which 5 people were murdered
     
  • Dead terrorist Walid Daqqa who murdered 1 person
     
  • Terrorist prisoner Muhammad Al-Tous, who was involved in the murder of 5 people
     
  • Arch-terrorist Abu Jihad, who the PA credits with planning the murder of at least 125 people

Celebrating Terrorist's Day – "Prisoner's Day" in PA terminology – PA schools engaged heavily in brainwashing Palestinian youth to embrace and admire terrorist murderers as their heroes and role models.

At a PA school in Birzeit, young Palestinian girls were taught to honor and admire terrorist prisoner and bomb maker Abdallah Barghouti, who is serving 67 life sentences for his involvement in the murder of 68 people. Other "heroes" presented to the girls were terrorist prisoner Marwan Barghouti, who orchestrated three attacks in which 5 people were murdered, and "Martyr" Walid Daqqa, who murdered 1 person together with accomplices:

The girl on the left is holding a picture of terrorist prisoner Abdallah Barghouti. The girl second from the left is holding a picture of terrorist prisoner Marwan Barghouti. The girl second from the right is holding a picture of dead terrorist Walid Daqqa; above his picture are the words "A prisoner and then a Martyr."

[Birzeit Directorate of Education, Facebook page, April 19, 2026]

Imprisoned bomb maker Abdallah Barghouti was also glorified at schools in Nablus. An exhibition named "Our prisoners (i.e., terrorists) in the eyes of our students" was inaugurated by Nablus District Governor Ghassan Daghlas and Nablus Directorate of Education Director-General Samer Al-Jamal at the Hawara High School for Boys.

Abdallah Barghouti's picture is the second from the top in the left column, accompanied by the text: "The one with the heaviest sentence":

The text on the poster says: "So that we will not forget, our prisoner, an endless story of resolve."

[South Nablus Directorate of Education, Facebook page, April 22, 2026]

At the event, students wore shirts with the text "Freedom for the prisoners," and one youth held a picture of terrorist prisoner Muhammad Al-Tous, who was involved in the murder of 5 people:

At another PA school, young boys were given posters of arch-terrorist Abu Jihad, who the PA itself has credited with planning attacks in which at least 125 people were murdered. Abu Jihad's assassination by Israel coincides with Prisoner's Day and is marked annually by the PA:

Text on sign: "May Allah have mercy on Martyr Abu Jihad"

[South Nablus Directorate of Education, Facebook page, April 19, 2026]

Text on sign: "38 years since the assassination of Khalil Al-Wazir ‘Abu Jihad'

Prince of Martyrs"

[South Nablus Directorate of Education, Facebook page, April 19, 2026]

An exhibit of the PA's map of "Palestine" that erases the entire State of Israel at the school in Hawara was adorned with of four of the six terrorist prisoners who temporarily escaped from Gilboa Prison in 2021, namely Mahmoud Ardah, Zakariya Zubeidi, Muhammad Ardah, and Yaqub Qaderi:

As Palestinian Media Watch has exposed, the PA never misses an opportunity to glorify terrorist murderers. They are held in such high esteem that they even have their own special national day of celebration: Prisoner's Day.

The following are the posts accompanying the photos of Palestinian children being taught to admire terrorist murderers:

Posted text: "Sunday, April 19, 2026

The schools of South Nablus marked the anniversary of the death of national leader Khalil Al-Wazir ‘Abu Jihad' (i.e., terrorist, responsible for murder of 125), coinciding with the commemoration of Palestinian Prisoner's Day, through a series of national and educational activities that reflected the spirit of affiliation and loyalty to the sacrifice of the Martyrs and prisoners (i.e., terrorists).

Special morning events and art and culture exhibitions were held in the schools, alongside speeches by school principals and students, in which they emphasized the importance of remembering the symbols of the national struggle, foremost among them ‘Abu Jihad,' who was an example of sacrifice and giving for the Palestinian aim."

[South Nablus Directorate of Education, Facebook page, April 19, 2026]

Abu Jihad (Khalil Al-Wazir)

Posted text: "‘We write your names on the light so that forgetfulness will not steal the sound of the footsteps'

The schools of Birzeit mark Palestinian Prisoner's Day"

[Birzeit Directorate of Education, Facebook page, April 19, 2026]

Abdallah Barghouti

Marwan Barghouti

Walid Daqqa

Posted text: "Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Nablus [District] Governor Ghassan Daghlas and [Nablus] Directorate of Education (i.e., branch of the PA Ministry of Education) Director-General Samer Al-Jamal inaugurated an exhibition for prisoners (i.e., terrorists) under the slogan ‘Our prisoners in the eyes of our students' at the Hawara High School for Boys. The event was attended by Head of the [PLO] Commission of Prisoners' Affairs [in Nablus] Khaled Abu Kamleh, Hawara Mayor Jihad Oudeh, and [Fatah] Hawara Organizational Branch Secretary Kamal Oudeh." …

[South Nablus Directorate of Education, Facebook page, April 22, 2026]

Muhammad Al-Tous

2021 Gilboa Prison escape

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