Israeli official’s arrest, flight from US prompts fury among Trump supporters
The arrest and flight from the US of an Israeli cybersecurity official who was caught in a child sex setup has sharpened Republican divisions over Washington’s relationship with Israel amid the Gaza war.
Earlier this month, Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, who headed a division at the Israel National Cyber Directorate, was arrested after trying to meet a 15-year-old girl for “sexual contact”, police said.
He posted bail and fled for Israel before his court date. The US State Department denied the US government intervened in any way.
But Republican lawmakers such as Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie, along with major right-wing commentators like Tucker Carlson, cast the case as part of a wider pattern of US deference to Israel and demanded Alexandrovich be extradited.
“The most concerning question is when and how did America become so subservient to Israel that we immediately release a CHILD SEX PREDATOR after arrest,” wrote Greene, one of Trump’s most vocal supporters, in a post on X, in which she also criticised a State Department decision to halt visitor visas for Palestinians from Gaza, including for children who need medical care.
Two recent decisions made by the State Department both involve children.
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.
But in this… https://t.co/DAoKlC2sNd
— Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@FmrRepMTG) August 19, 2025
