It certainly is. I haven't been able to bring myself to watch the video, but I did look at some still photos from it. That beard completely took me by surprise. He looked middle eastern. I wasn't prepared for that. Another thing I found odd was that in those still photos I couldn't see any blood. Maybe they were just too blurry. I don't know.
In the video he looked like he was a muslim because of his hair and his beard. But, having jewish background I guess there are bound to be similarities-very curly hair, etc. This story has so many twists in it. The end result is the same though. An innocent person was butchered and obviously the rest of the world does not care.