Marwan Barghouti gestures as Israeli police bring him into the District Court for his judgment hearing in Tel Aviv, May 20, 2004. Photo: Reuters / Pool / David Silverman.

By celebrating Terrorist’s Day – “Prisoner’s Day” in Palestinian Authority (PA) terms — PA schools are brainwashing Palestinian children 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 five people were murdered, and “Martyr” Walid Daqqa, who murdered one 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 five 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 consistently shown, the PA treats terrorists and murderers as role models — yet this incitement and glorification is ignored by the United States and the entire West.

The author is a contributor to Palestinian Media Watch, where a version of this story first appeared.