Jordanian Camp Trains Arab Students to "Organize for Palestine" on Western Campuses
Inside "PalPrep," the camp prepping Arab teens for Western campuses — and its co-founder who praises PFLP hijackers and a terrorist who killed 38 Israelis on a bus
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A Jordanian summer camp called PalPrep is training Arab teenagers to “talk and organize for Palestine on Western campuses,” with the help of a curriculum that includes books by a terrorist leader and says the objective of Zionism is ethnic cleansing. The program, held annually in Ajloun, has graduated at least 30 students across two cohorts since launching in 2024 and is now recruiting its third class for July 2026. Co-founder Samar Saeed, a PhD candidate at Georgetown University, stated that the goal is to prepare students “to advocate for Palestine effectively and safely” on Western campuses.
A Co-Founder Who Praises Terrorists
The camp’s co-founder, Samar Saeed, is a Palestinian/Jordanian PhD candidate in History at Georgetown, born and raised in Jordan, who first came to the U.S. in 2004 for her undergraduate studies before heading to Europe — living and working in Zurich and completing an MA in London — and eventually returning to the U.S. in 2017 to pursue further graduate studies at Georgetown. Her visa or citizenship status is unclear.
Saeed has openly celebrated terrorists, hijackings, and “armed struggle” on her social media and in Arabic language interviews. In an interview on the Amman-based Sowt network’s “Eib” podcast — produced in partnership with Ahel.org, the organization founded by PalPrep’s other co-founder Nisreen Haj Ahmad — Saeed made several statements including, endorsing “armed struggle,” elevating convicted terrorists as figures of “Palestinian revolution” worthy of historical recognition, and referring to a terrorist plane hijacking as a “great action.” The following quotes have been translated and time-stamped from the Arabic-language interview:
At 5:03, endorsing armed struggle: “We will take the reins of things in our hands, and indeed operations began against the Zionist entity from Jordan and from Lebanon, and the banner of armed struggle was raised at that time — that armed struggle is the path to the liberation of Palestine.”
At 30:02, praising PFLP plane hijacker Leila Khaled: “For example, if you think about Leila Khaled, her name is frequently mentioned in books about Palestine because she carried out an act in the public sphere—a great act: hijacking planes. In this context, such an act was unprecedented, generating significant media and analytical attention, and people were eager to learn about it. But even when you consider Leila's history — the activist Leila, of course, has a very long history, and she continues to struggle — most people remember her primarily for this act...”
At 1:05:03, responding to the host naming Theresa Halsa, Dalal Mughrabi, and Leila Khaled as Palestinian “female military fighters” and “Palestinian poster women”:
Dalal Mughrabi helped lead the 1978 Coastal Road massacre that killed 38 Israeli civilians, including 13 children. Theresa Halsa was a hijacker of Sabena Flight 571 in 1972. Leila Khaled was convicted of hijacking TWA Flight 840 in 1969 and attempting to hijack El Al Flight 219 in 1970.
On August 11, 2025, Saeed posted a tribute to Al Jazeera’s Anas Al-Sharif on her personal Instagram (@samarreads), writing “Feels like we lost our younger brother. Heart shattered.”
The IDF published primary documents — including Hamas personnel rosters, training records, and salary slips — showing Al-Sharif headed a Hamas terror cell that conducted rocket attacks against Israeli civilians and IDF troops. The Times of Israel separately reported that he was receiving a Hamas salary.
A Curriculum That Defines Zionism as “Ethnic Cleansing”
PalPrep explicitly targets international Arab students bound for universities in the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Australia, “or any other Western country.”
PalPrep’s public Instagram account, @pal.prep, publishes the ideological content it teaches. A November 6, 2024 titled, “What is Zionism?” the objective slide declared that “Zionism’s objective is to create an ethno-exclusive Jewish settler society” and that “Zionist founders openly discussed the necessity for violence and ethnic cleansing.”
The caption framed Zionism as “a racist political ideology linked to white-supremacy.” An alumni testimonial promoted by the camp reflected that “If I had PalPrep I would have been better equipped to debunk Zionist narrative on Palestine.”
PFLP Literature on the Reading List
The group’s reading list includes books written by terrorists. In a July 26, 2024 post titled "Our List of Favorite Books," PalPrep recommended Men in the Sun by Ghassan Kanafani — a deceased former leader in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.
The PFLP itself lists Kanafani as a co-founder alongside George Habash and Wadie Haddad. On May 30, 1972, three Japanese Red Army operatives recruited by the PFLP attacked Lod Airport, killing 26 civilians — including 17 Christian pilgrims from Puerto Rico — and injuring 80 others. Kanafani reportedly helped engineer the attack. PalPrep's caption praised its recommended authors as having "all fought and continue to fight for [Palestine's] liberation."
Caricature Presented as Curriculum
An October 28, 2024 post titled “What Is Settler Colonialism?” features a cartoon by Dwayne Booth, who publishes under the name “Mr. Fish” and whose work was publicly condemned by the University of Pennsylvania’s president as antisemitic.
The cartoon depicts a heavyset figure wearing a yarmulke, dark beard, and blue-and-white striped shirt, bearing the placard “1948” and holding keys. The caption explained that “Understanding settler colonialism reveals the truth of ongoing erasure.”
Endorsing the People’s Conference for Palestine
In a June 1, 2024 post, PalPrep enthused about the People’s Conference for Palestine in Detroit, writing it was “SOOO inspired” by attendees and “can’t wait to build relationships with all these amazing groups.”
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) documented that the 2024 conference named a ballroom after convicted PFLP terrorist Walid Daqqa, named a room after Palestinian Islamic Jihad spokesman Khader Adnan, and featured speakers who “explicitly named groups like Hamas and PIJ” as deserving support. Sen. Tom Cotton has urged the IRS to investigate the Palestinian Youth Movement for terror ties.
A Pipeline in Plain Sight
PalPrep’s explicit target geography is every Western higher education system. Its curriculum trains teenagers to view Zionism as white supremacy, to read PFLP literature, and to debunk Zionist narrative upon arrival on campus.
As Western universities continue grappling with antisemitic activity often linked to anti-Israel activism, PalPrep appears to represent something distinct: not the radicalization of students at universities, but the pre-radicalization of students before they arrive.
Samar Saeed should not be here. Support for terrorism should strip her of her right to be here. Why is the State Dept so weak in screening our foreigners here who hate this country and our values?
Samar Saeed should not be here. Support for terrorism should strip her of her right to be here. Why is the State Dept so weak in screening our foreigners here who hate this country and our values?