Islam and antisemitism

Swedish police on Monday said they are probing an attempted arson against a Jewish chapel after a similar attack against a synagogue, which came in the wake of the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

Two Palestinians were killed early this morning in an Israeli air strike on Hamas in the center of the Gaza Strip, said a spokesman for the Islamist movement quoted by the France press.

Armed Palestinian resistance group Hamas has warned against U.S. plans to relocate the its embassy to Jerusalem and recognize the city as Israel’s capital.

A journalist in Germany has been given a 6 month suspended jail sentence for posting a historical photo on Facebook and making the argument that Islam is a fascist ideology.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry has announced an investigation into an "infrastructure for transferring funds via couriers between Hamas command centers in Turkey and the Gaza Strip and the Hamas command center in Hebron."

A mass rally was held at Istanbul's Yenikapı Square on July 30 to condemn the recent Israeli restrictions on Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem on July 30. 

The EU's highest court has maintained a ruling that Palestinian Islamist group Hamas is a terrorist organisation, in a blow to campaigners who have called for the militant organisation to be removed from Europe's blacklist, reported the Financial Times.

Senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was elected chief of the group's political bureau, a Hamas source said on May 6. 

Haniyeh was selected in polls that were held on May 6 in both the Gaza Strip and Doha simultaneously via video conference. 

He will replace Khaled Meshaal, who has been Hamas political chief since 1996. 

A resident of Qalqilya, 23-year-old Malak Nazar Yousseff Kazmar was arrested two months ago by the Shin Bet and the IDF on the suspicion of recruiting people to the Hamas and plotting deadly terror attacks against Israelis.

The last support in the Middle East for the "Muslim Brotherhood" ended on May 2. Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal personally declared the new policy document of his organization, announcing that it is not a "branch of the Muslim Brotherhood" anymore. He also declared that Hamas would form better relations with Egypt and other Muslim countries that have problems with the Muslim Brotherhood.