The Palestinian American activist Nerdeen Kiswani spoke outside of New York City Hall Monday, after the NYPD foiled an assassination attempt against her. A New Jersey man, Alexander Heifler, has been arrested and charged with plotting to firebomb Kiswani’s home in Brooklyn. Investigators say Heifler was a member of the JDL 613 Brotherhood, a New Jersey-based group founded in 2024 that describes itself as a revival of the Jewish Defense League, a pro-Israel group designated by the FBI as a terrorist organization. Democracy Now! was at the press conference yesterday with Kiswani and her lawyers.

Nerdeen Kiswani: “And today I am standing here not just as an organizer, but as a mother, as a Palestinian and as someone who was the target of a Zionist assassination plot that I have been warning has been inevitable for far too long, when I learned that someone was preparing to attack my home, building explosive — building explosives with the intention of taking my life.”

Click here to see our interview with Nerdeen Kiswani yesterday on Democracy Now!