Brussels’ trek down the road to bureaucratic centralization seems all the more ominous in view of the striking rise in that predictable concomitant of totalitarianism: anti-Semitism. For whatever reason, the two impulses seem to go together. As has been widely reported in the press, a new wave of anti-Semitism has been sweeping across Europe—above all in France, the native land of Captain Dreyfus, but also elsewhere. The demonstrations, violence, and heckling are often presented as anti-Israeli sentiment, but it is clear that fueling the outrage is a core of anti-Semitic animus. The recent news of Le Pen’s startling upsets at the French polls has produced some delightful breast-beating among French socialists but cannot be regarded as encouraging.

Or consider Tom Paulin, the British poet, Oxford don, and left-wing activist. In a recent interview in the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram, Mr. Paulin was ...

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