Abigail R. Esman
ARTICLES BY: Abigail R. Esman
Arrests Show Jihadists Infiltrating Europe Posed as Syrian Refugees
When Europe agreed to open its borders to Syrian refugees in response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of our age, officials assured the...
Belgian Terror Arrests Underscore the Growing Threat to Europe and America
Last Wednesday, just two years and a day after the deadly terrorist attack on the Jewish Museum in Brussels, and barely more than two months...
Erdogan Critic Unfazed by Threats of Prosecution, Death
For 17 days this month, Dutch columnist Ebru Umar was held against her will in Turkey, and legally barred from leaving the country. Her alleged crime: insulting...
Dutch Intelligence: Competition Could Fuel Jihadi Plots
The Netherlands' Intelligence Service (AIVD) is predicting a "large scale, spectacular attack in Europe or the US." And, they say, it could happen very soon. AIVD's report on 2015,...
How Radicalization Was Allowed to Fester in Belgium
These are the numbers, the hard facts: Twenty months. Three terrorist attacks. One hundred seventy dead. And almost all the killers grew up in, or...
Europe’s Young ISIS Recruits: Should They Stay or Should They Go?
For weeks, Farid Bouamran, a Dutch-Moroccan immigrant who has lived in Amsterdam for 30 years, watched as his son Achraf became increasingly radicalized, tuning in to...
The Terror Threat to Europe Is America’s, Too
Some weeks after the attacks of 9/11, a Dutch journalist spoke at a panel discussion in Amsterdam, describing his experience of the events. Faced with...
Brussels Bombing Suspect Tied to Paris Plotter
Having identified the three men responsible for Tuesday's bombings at Brussels' Zaventem airport, police are now said to be closing in on the one surviving suspect,...
Despite Capture of Europe’s Most-Wanted Terrorist, the News Is Not Good
It took just over four months, but Belgian police on Friday tracked down an unexpected lead and captured Europe's most wanted terrorist: Saleh Abdeslam, the mastermind of...
Study: ISIS Uses and Abuses Child Soldiers
We've all seen them by now: the nightmarish photographs of a young boy holding up a severed head; or carrying a Kalashnikov he is well-trained...
The Next Syrian Refugee Crisis: Child Brides
While the West debates the humanitarian problem of Syrian refugees flooding across its borders, the discussions repeatedly turn to the dangers they might pose: what...
Dutch Intelligence Report Exposes Horrors of Daily Life Under ISIS
When the leaders of ISIS declared the caliphate of the Islamic State in June 2014, the world already had a strong idea of who they...
We Could Have Seen Europe’s Muslim Rape Crisis Coming
In the aftermath of the New Year's Eve's mass rapes of European women by Muslim refugees, the questions have been repeated: Should we have known this kind...
The New Terror Threat: Organized Rape
It was a different kind of terrorist attack: a carefully orchestrated, coordinated mass rape and sexual assault on hundreds of women across Cologne, Germany, amongst...
