France’s chief rabbi said Thursday that he was personally pained when President Obama suggested that an Islamic terrorist “randomly” blew away four Jews inside a kosher market in Paris last month.

“It really hurts me to hear the president say that, because a random act would mean that the attackers weren’t going after Jewish people,” Rabbi Haim Korsia said at Manhattan’s Park East Synagogue.

“They could have been going after anyone. But these attacks were focused on Jewish people.’’

The White House has defended Obama’s remarks, insisting that while the grocery attack was “motivated by anti-Semitism,” the victims “were not targeted by name.”