A freshman at George Mason University in Virginia is accused of plotting an attack at the- Israeli consulate general in New York. He faces a charge of distributing information relating to weapons of mass destruction, according to federal court documents.

The student, Abdullah Ezzeldin Taha Mohamed Hassan, a citizen of Egypt, interacted with an FBI informant he met online.

After the informant told Hassan that it may be God’s will for the informant to “act here,” Hassan, 18, encouraged the informant to attack government buildings and sent a link to a video with bomb-making instructions, according to an affidavit filed Monday by an FBI agent.

When the informant, posing as an eager co-conspirator, told Hassan he was in New York, the student replied that the city was a “goldmine of targets” and that the best choice for an attack would be a building representing the “Yahud” — the Arabic word for Jews.

The next day, Hassan sent the informant the address of the Israeli consulate general in the city.

— The New York Times