Ahmet Salih Alacaci
20 August 2025•Update: 20 August 2025
WASHINGTON
US Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene on Tuesday accused the State Department of involvement in the release from police custody in Nevada of an Israeli government official arrested in a multi-agency operation that targeted alleged child sex predators.
“Two recent decisions made by the State Department both involve children,” the Republican lawmaker said on the US social media company X’s platform, referring to the release of Israeli cybersecurity official Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, as well as an order by the department to suspend visitor visas from Gaza, including children in need of medical attention.
“Would it be antisemitic to drag (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu’s Cyber Executive Director back and prosecute this pos (piece of s---) to the full extent of the law and at the same time let Palestinian kids who had their limbs and bodies blown apart receive surgeries in America?” she said.
The State Department has denied allegations that the US government was involved in the decision to release Alexandrovich, who was arrested in an undercover police operation in Las Vegas and charged with soliciting sex from a minor.
Alexandrovich, 38, is listed on an Israeli government website as head of the Technological Defense Division at the Israel National Cyber Directorate, an agency that oversees civilian cyber defense. The directorate said he was released after questioning, according to the Israeli daily Haaretz, which reported that he was not arrested after returning to Israel.
Separately, the US State Department on Saturday suspended all visitor visas for Gaza Strip residents, citing a review of procedures used to grant recent medical and humanitarian entries.
In her post, Greene criticized the decision, saying: “We need to be the America that allows war torn children to come here for life saving surgeries and the America that never releases a foreign child sex predator that our great LEO’s caught,” referring to law enforcement officers.
“But in this circumstance, those war torn children are from Gaza, and this foreign child sex predator is from Israel and works directly for Netanyahu,” she added.
Calling the US “so subservient to Israel that we immediately release a CHILD SEX PREDATOR after arrest, with a 100% locked up case with evidence,” Greene questioned whether suspects from other countries would receive similar treatment in the US, or if children from war-hit regions would also be denied entry for treatment.
“I know God does not discriminate in his love for children. Why would we?” she added.
