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Ronn Torossian, chairman and founder of public relations firm 5WPR, confirmed in a message to The Daily Orange that he was the parent arrested in Shaw Quadrangle on Sunday afternoon.

Torossian – the president of the Syracuse Jewish Parents Council, which he said represents 450 “Zionist families involved in Syracuse University” – wrote that his detention came after he accused Chancellor Kent Syverud and the head of the Department of Public Security, Craig Stone, called for a meeting with the Jewish community.

“We – proud American Zionist Jews – are concerned for the safety of our children and our community. Our greatest fears as Jews are coming true. It happens again. The Jewish people are not safe,” Torossian wrote. “Syracuse Chancellor Kent Syverud, the Jewish community has been requesting a meeting with you and the police chief since October 7, and you have refused.”

Chief Student Experience Officer Allen Groves and Stone wrote in a campus-wide email Sunday that “one parent,” Torossian, was “particularly aggressive in his verbal treatment of students” at Gaza Solidarity Camp. After being asked to de-escalate, they wrote that Torossian grabbed the students’ food from a table and threw it away.





“Syracuse University remains focused on the safety of all of our students,” a university spokesperson wrote in a statement to The DO on Monday evening. “We will continue to take swift action when there is any harassing behavior or behavior.”

Torossian denied throwing food from the table and said he was given food by someone in the Gaza solidarity camp. He also questioned how the university could claim that the food on the table came from students and not someone else.

“Your police are not arresting non-students off campus after attacking Jewish fraternities, but are asking these strong, good Jewish young men to suppress Israeli music in the same place,” Torossian wrote, referring to an incident on Saturday , in which a person unaffiliated with the university reportedly gesticulated a Hitler salute and then hit a student.

Groves and Stone wrote in a campus-wide email Saturday that the student did not want to press charges. Syracuse police are investigating the incident, an SPD spokesperson previously told The DO

Torossian was previously CEO of 5WPR but resigned in 2022, months after The Daily Beast published an article describing his relationship with then-New York City Mayor Eric Adams and his website Everything PR, which was “known for it “to overshadow the PR of rivals”. agencies while promoting the work of 5WPR,” said Lachlan Cartwright of The Daily Beast. Torossian later apologized for his “lack of transparency” about the site.

Torossian has also represented clients such as the Eric Trump Foundation and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s regime, The Daily Beast reported.

“Why was I — who has been lecturing to Newhouse students this semester — removed from this camp, but a local man your officials know is allowed to film our students on campus?” he wrote.

Torossian also claimed that there were “external agitators” at the Gaza solidarity camp and said it was “reprehensible” that protesters had signs with phrases such as “Liberate Palestine” and “From the river to the sea.”

“An emergency meeting must be held to discuss the safety of Jews at Syracuse University,” he wrote.

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Published May 6, 2024 at 10:39 p.m

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