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<\/p>\nHOBOKEN, N.J. — The New York Police Department and the FBI disrupted an alleged plot to kill a pro-Palestinian activist in New Jersey, according to the woman targeted, law enforcement officials and a criminal complaint unsealed Friday in Newark.<\/p>\n
At least one arrest was made when law enforcement executed a search warrant at Willow Avenue and Clinton Street in Hoboken.<\/p>\n
Authorities arrested Alexander Heifler Thursday night on charges of unlawfully possessing and unlawfully making firearms and accused him of plotting to “go after” the activist, Nerdeen Kiswani, co-founder of Within Our Lifetime, an organizer of many of the pro-Palestinian protests in New York City.<\/p>\n
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Kiswani is not identified by name in the criminal complaint but she posted on social media the FBI informed her she was the alleged target.<\/p>\n
In the statement she vowed she would not stop speaking up for Palestinian people:<\/p>\n
An NYPD undercover officer broke the case open after the department identified Heifler online, infiltrated a group chat, developed a relationship and thwarted the plot.<\/p>\n
The undercover officer personally witnessed Heifler making the eight Molotov cocktails in Hoboken Thursday which led to his arrest, officials say.<\/p>\n
“Heifler also told the (undercover officer) that he had an address where they could hide out after they threw the Molotov cocktails” and discussed a plan to leave the country, the complaint said.<\/p>\n
Authorities allege the plan was to throw the Molotov cocktails at Kiswani that night.<\/p>\n
Law enforcement believes they stopped an imminent threat and the FBI said there is no threat to public safety.<\/p>\n
Hoboken Mayor Emily B. Jabbour released a statement Friday and said there was “no danger to residents and no ongoing threat.”<\/p>\n
(ABC News contributed to this report.)<\/p>\n
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