Carole Raphaelle Davis writes about the frightening increase in attacks by Arabs on French Jews—and the equally frightening refusal of the French to acknowledge the problem: What’s New in Paris? (Hat tip: Carl in Jerusalem.)

Unlike the last big wave of anti-Semitism in France, the people who are committing these crimes today are predominantly first-generation descendants of immigrants from the former French colonies in North Africa — Muslim Arabs. Radicalized Islam is taking root all over Europe, encouraged by the international Arab press, the successes of Al Qaeda and sympathy for the Palestinian intifada. This malignant hatred is fueled by the Internet, where thousands of French, European and Arabic-language sites give voice to and connect cyber-haters in Internet chat rooms. Virtual Jewish blood is flowing from ever-growing e-mail lists while live screaming for Jewish blood is heard at pro-Palestinian/anti-American demonstrations on the Grands Boulevards of Paris.

A 12-year-old Jewish girl walking home from school in Paris is not an Israeli in “occupied territory,” but these days she might as well be. She is defenseless and we must step forward to protect her. This new generation of anti-Semites, “Arabullies,” are also virulently anti-Israel.

Sadly, but not surprisingly, if one speaks in support of Israel at French dinner parties, one is shouted down. Even at my own dinner table, when I told a guest of my fears about living in Paris in such a climate of anti-Semitism, he insisted, “There is no anti-Semitism in France, don’t be ridiculous.”

When I told him about everything I had read about the rising tide of anti-Jewish hatred, he told me I was being “influenced by the Jew lobby” and that whatever I was reading was “Jewish propaganda.”

When I told him that among other papers, I was reading The New York Times, he said, “You know, The New York Times is a Jewish paper and Jews control all the media.”

He said it with a smile, even knowing that I am a Jew. What made his comments especially chilling is that he is on the Catholic Board of Education of Paris.