The opening of a hall that the Palestinian Authority named for a terrorist who killed 125 people. Photo: Palestinian Media Watch.

The principal of the Hebron Boys’ Elementary School on October 7, 2023 has since moved on to be the principal of a different school, but his name remains the same — Hitler.

October 2, 2023	March 30, 2026
Text: Principal Hitler Faik Abu Hamad [Hebron Boys’ Elementary School, Facebook page]	Text: Principal Hitler Faik Abu Hamad [Tareq Bin Ziyad Boys’ High School – Hebron, Facebook page]

And in case anyone wonders why a Palestinian would name a child Hitler, the answer may be the same reason another Palestinian named his child Eichmann –because it “angers Zionism“:

Out of his love for his homeland, he gave birth to a son and gave him the name Eichmann to anger Zionism [since]”after the Mossad executed Adolf Eichmann … the one who burned the Jews out of hatred has passed on, and the Palestinian Eichmann has been born.

[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, June 13, 2021]

Nor are these isolated examples. Palestinian society has a history of glorifying Nazism and senior Nazi leaders.

Fatah Central Committee member Tawfiq Tirawi, for example, said in a television interview that “Hitler was not morally corrupt,” rather that “he was daring.”

A preacher on official Palestinian Authority (PA) TV has also taught that Hitler was one of a series of people sent by Allah throughout history to punish the Jews because of their evil behavior and to teach them a lesson:

This is the example Palestinian leaders and institutions are setting for their children.

Zayzafuna, a monthly educational magazine for children sponsored by the PLO’s Palestinian National Committee for Education, Culture and Sciences, once featured an essay by a teenage girl in which Hitler appeared to her in a dream and explained: “I killed [the Jews] so you would all know that they are a nation which spreads destruction all over the world.”

It was due to the exposure of that magazine by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) that Zayzafuna lost its UNESCO funding.

This Nazi admiration is part of the same core antisemitic PA ideology, as exposed by PMW again this week, when we reported on how the official PA daily revived medieval blood libels and claimed that Jews have “rituals sanctifying the spilling of blood of the non-Jews.”

Whether Palestinians are glorifying those who mass murdered Jews by naming their children after Hitler and Eichmann, or are demonizing Jews by publishing vicious blood libels, the message is two sides of the same coin: the Jews are evil and those who kill them are heroes and role models.

Ephraim D. Tepler is a contributor to Palestinian Media Watch (PMW). Itamar Marcus is the Founder and Director of PMW, where a version of this article first appeared.