Man arrested in plot to firebomb Palestinian activist's NYC home

Federal law enforcement officials have disrupted a plot to fire bomb the New York City home of a prominent Palestinian activist. Nerdeen Kiswani, co-founder of the group Within Our Lifetime, says she was informed by an FBI official late Thursday that there was “a threat on my life." She says she was told that the man had been apprehended. According to a criminal complaint, Alexander Heifler was arrested in his New Jersey home late Thursday after an undercover operation revealed that he planned to throw a dozen Molotov cocktails at Kiswani’s home. The complaint says he spent weeks discussing the plot with an undercover law enforcement official.