A/HRC/4/19/Add.4 page 23 Egyptian School in Milan.40 Muslim organizations and parents have advocated that religious education in Islam should also be introduced into the curricula of public schools, but so far these calls have not yielded any concrete results. 56. According to representatives of the Jewish community with whom the Special Rapporteur met, that community, which has been present in Italy for more than 2,000 years, is well integrated in Italian society. Yet, there are still attacks against them, taking the form of anti-Semitic graffiti on walls, including swastikas, and occasional violent attacks on symbols or places of worship. In their view, these attacks often relate to their identification with the policy of the State of Israel rather than to their belonging to the Jewish faith. Recent studies highlight that individuals and groups belonging to the far right “constitute the most numerous and aggressive category of perpetrators of racist and anti-Jewish acts”.41 F. The role of the media 57. Various journalists highlighted the critical role the media continues to play in portraying a negative image of migrants and associating members of the Muslim faith with crime, invasion, danger, extremism and terrorism. When crimes are committed by persons of foreign origin or belonging to the Roma or Sinti community, their nationality or ethnicity is particularly emphasized. This has been recently reflected in a proliferation of press articles on rapes committed in the area of Bologna by persons of Moroccan origin triggered by an allegation of rape against a Moroccan regular migrant that was subsequently disproved. On other occasions, the media serve as a platform for the dissemination of racist and xenophobic ideas, as in an article published in Il Tempo in which Romanian citizens were characterized as a “very violent race, dangerous and overbearing”.42 Regarding the frequent equation of “migrant, Muslim, terrorist”, examples were given of the reaction of some media after the London attacks, warning of the dangers of having immigrants of the Islamic faith in Italy. Civil society and journalists stressed the need to sensitize the media concerning their responsibility in combating racism, xenophobia and racial discrimination, and proposals were made for the elaboration of a media code of conduct in this regard. 40 This school was first wrongly referred to as a Koranic school by the media and some politicians, though it included in the curriculum the same number of hours that Catholic schools devote to the teaching of religion. Allegedly, the reasons given related to the absence of conditions in the school that had to be fulfilled before a permit could be granted. Nevertheless, the question was said to have become politicized and misrepresented by the media and required the intervention of the Minister of Education to be unblocked. 41 European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) working paper, Anti-Semitism: Summary overview of the situation in the European Union 2001-2005, p. 21. 42 Il Tempo, 3 October 2006.