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A beating in central Berlin last weekend that left a Jewish student at the city’s Free University (FU) hospitalized appears to have been a targeted attack, according to investigators. The assault appears to have been politically motivated over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and is being investigated as a potential anti-Semitic attack, according to a spokesman for Berlin’s public prosecutor’s office. Because of the apparent political motivation, the incident has been classified as a hate crime, the spokesman said. Lahav Shapira, 30, suffered broken bones in his face and was treated in hospita…