Meric Gertler doesn't like when students protest against big oil or Israel. He's a brilliant scholar in his domain but he lets his obvious bias show a little too often lately. A few years ago he also blocked the hiring of an internationally-renowned human rights lawyer because she had done done legal work on Israel in a somewhat critical way and that pissed-off a Jewish rich donor to the law school (Spiro). Make what you want of it all but I personally think it sends all sorts of wrong messages and doesn't reflect positively on UofT.