PARIS — Like other Jews in Paris, Rabbi Salomon Malka is shocked by the anti-Semitic attacks that have taken place on the edges of pro-Palestinian demonstrations over the past two weeks in and around the French capital.

In the suburb of Sarcelles, known as “little Jerusalem” because it is home to 15,000 Jews, a kosher grocery and a Jewish-owned pharmacy were torched. A week earlier, a synagogue on Rue de la Roquette near the Bastille in central Paris came under attack while its congregation cowered inside. Demonstrators were heard chanting, “Death to Jews.”

Across the city, the Sephardic congregation at Rabbi Malka’s Berith Chalom synagogue on Rue Saint-Lazare — mostly Jews who fled Algiers in the 1960s — has escaped the violence, but not the tension. “They’re human beings, and they are aware of what is going on,” said Rabbi Malka, who has been rabbi here for 25 years. “They don’t understand at all why they are targets of this hatred.”

Rabbi Malka, 72, is convinced that the Middle East conflict is just a pretext for something deeper and even more alarming, and more peculiar to France.