US President George W. Bush signed into law the Global Anti-Semitism Review Act of 2004 on Saturday, requiring the State Department to create a special office to monitor and report to Congress on worldwide anti-Semitism.
The bill was approved despite State Department protests that it already monitors anti-Semitism, and that the special office would be seen as favoritism.
"This law commits a government to keep a record of anti-Semitic acts... and a record of responses. This nation... will make sure that the ancient impulse of anti-Semitism never finds a home in the modern world," Bush said.