NEW YORK: A US-based Palestinian-American activist said Friday that the FBI had disrupted an imminent plot to assassinate her, as authorities charged a 26-year-old man with possessing Molotov cocktails he meant to use against her home.
Nerdeen Kiswani leads Within Our Lifetime, a Palestinian advocacy group active in New York City, and has been a key figure in organizing protests particularly focused on the Gaza war.
“Late last night the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force informed me that a plot against my life was ‘about to’ take place,” Kiswani wrote on X.
The suspect, Alexander Heifler, from New Jersey, was arrested after he unwittingly shared with an undercover officer his plans to throw Molotov cocktails into Kiswani’s home, according to charging documents.
Authorities recovered eight of the incendiary bottles from Heifler’s residence and said he expressed plans to leave the United States after the attack.
