YOU COULD EASILY HAVE MISSED the two-inch story on an inside page of yesterday’s Washington Post about the young mother attacked on a train near Paris, but it dominated the front pages in France. “Train of hate,” was the lead headline in the conservative Le Figaro, followed by the subhead, “The cowardice of the anti-Semitic thugs was matched by the cowardice of the passengers on the train.”

“Antis’mitism: A French story,” read the giant headline filling the first page of the leftist Libération. “Indignation is universal after the gang attack Friday in an RER train near Paris on a young woman and her 13-month old baby in front of passive witnesses.”