'Not a good thing': Jonathan Turley reacts to Google workers protesting against company’s work with Israel

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: Legal expert Jonathan Turley joined co-host Steve Doocy to discuss protests organized by Google employees in offices across the United States against the company working on a contract with Israel, on the Wednesday, April 17 episode of 'Fox & Friends.'

The protest, which resulted in Google firing over two dozen of their employees, resulted from a sense of "entitlement" on the left beyond the scope of free speech, he claimed.

Why were the workers protesting?

Google and Amazon have a $1.2 billion contract to provide cloud computing services to the Israeli government and military, known as Project Nimbus, which has long faced protests from tech workers.

Forming the group 'No Tech for Apartheid,' the workers alleged in a recent statement, "It’s clear that the Israeli military will use any technology available to them for genocidal means. Google workers do not want their labor to power Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza."

On Tuesday, April 16, the protestors staged sit-ins at Google headquarters in Seattle, Washington, Sunnyvale, California, and New York City, and further demanded the company stop "the harassment, intimidation, bullying, silencing, and censorship of Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim Googlers."

As a result of the protests, 28 workers were fired by the company for disrupting work, reported CNN.

Jonathan Turley's take on the protest

"This is part of the rather perverse universe we find ourselves in. They're Google, they're employees at the company," Turley told Doocy on the subject. "Most of us would not try to sit in with one's boss. It's generally not a good thing to move ahead."

"Maybe it is at Google, but there's a sense of entitlement here. There's also this idea that it's all free speech, that disrupting others, preventing others from speaking or occupying your boss's office is all part of my entitlement of free speech," he continued.

"That's not the case. You'll find no one with a broader, more robust view of free speech than myself. But free speech does not include disrupting others from speaking. It also doesn't include taking a salary and going in and stopping your business because you have a few things you want to get off your chest."