While the regional branch was not formed before 1951, several meetings took place at the universities where students and professors alike would discuss the ideology of the newly established Ba'ath Party.

[1] Several people expressed their support for Ba'athist ideology at these meetings, but the regional branch itself was not formed until 1951 in Karak by a group of teachers.

A clinic owned by Abd al-Rahman Shocair became a meeting place for Ba'athists in the organisation's early days.

Bahjat Abu Gharbiyah was the West Bank Ba'ath member, and, because of it, was responsible for building up the party organisation in this area.

When his exile ended, Shuqyar tried to form a National Front with the Jordanian Communist Party and the Ba'ath regional organisation as its leading members.

[10] From there, he climbed the party ladder and became a member of the National Command before he was placed under house arrest by Iraqi authorities.

The reason being that both the Iraqi and the Syrian-led Ba'ath parties have replaced ideology with blind allegiance to Saddamist discourse or the Assad regime.

Today, in contrast to Ba'athist ideology, both the pro-Iraq and pro-Syrian parties are considered largely irrelevant in the Jordanian political scene.

It is suffering from financial problems, and it is criticized by religious Jordanians for its secularism, while others are weary of its Arab nationalist ideology.

[citation needed] In 2023, the Jordanian Ba'ath Party's licence to participate in the local elections was renewed, causing criticism from Iraqi figures.