Cozen O’Connor’s vice chairman has found himself in the spotlight again for statements made as a board member for Temple University, after he sharply criticized a Temple professor’s speech before the United Nations about Israeli-Palestinian relations.

Patrick J. O’Connor, one of Cozen O’Connor’s founders and chairman of Temple’s board of trustees, drew backlash over the weekend from the Temple Association of University Professionals after suggesting that professor Marc Lamont Hill’s status with the university might be in danger. O’Connor made those remarks in reaction to Hill’s speech before the United Nations last week, in which he criticized Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. O’Connor called the speech ”lamentable” and “disgusting,” according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.