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Who are these two young men? Tariq Abu Khdeir the Palestinian American beaten to a pulp by Israeli police recently (captured on video), and Lucas Koerner an American who is Jewish, who met a similar fate 2 years earlier while speaking out against the occupation on a visit to Israel. Video of Lucas' arrest is in the article below. Both were at the recent protest in Washington DC 
“There’s nothing exceptional or heroic about a Jew standing against Zionism’
http://mondoweiss.net/2014/08/exceptional-standing-against.html/comment-page-1
