ICE Deaths Soar, Exiled Uyghur Leaders, South Lebanon, and More

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Throughout ceasefires and supposed periods of calm in the US war on Iran, another conflict has remained a constant: Israel’s onslaught in southern Lebanon.

Reporting from southern Lebanon, Inkstick regular Mat Nashed dives deep into the human toll of Israel’s ongoing violence in that country. For many residents of the region, the fighting has meant friends lost, homes destroyed, and multiple displacements.

Elsewhere in the world, South Africa continues to loom large in the minds of the far-right. Joseph Stabile reviews a new history of hard-right affinity for apartheid, digging into the long pattern of American support for racial segregation in the country.

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“Fear, Loss, and Hope Amid Israel’s War on South Lebanon” by Mat Nashed (Aug. 3)

Southern Lebanon has remained in Israel’s crosshairs for years. Amid ongoing attacks, residents of the region fear Israel is angling for a prolonged occupation of their homeland.

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“What’s Really Behind the Far Right’s Obsession with South Africa?” by Joseph Stabile (Aug. 4)

Augusta Dell’Omo’s Saving Apartheid, a timely new history, meticulously reconstructs the hard-right network of support for the South African regime in the late 20th century. Though ultimately unsuccessful, the transatlantic pro-apartheid movement casts a long shadow.

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“How US Wars Abroad Lay the Path for Militarizing Immigration” by Maria Mitri & Lydia El-Sayegh (Aug. 5)

From Afghanistan and Iraq in the first two decades of the 2000s to Cuba and Iran today, the foreign policy that fueled the so-called Global War on Terror has been instrumentalized to feed violent immigration enforcement domestically.

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“The Uyghur Prime Minister Who Can’t Go Home” by Mariel Ferragamo (Aug. 6)

Exiled Uyghur leaders consider East Turkistan an occupied country. China has administered it as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region since 1955; no country currently recognizes East Turkistan as an independent state.

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“Deep Dive: Detained by ICE, More and More People Are Dying” by Inkstick (Aug. 7)

A new report finds that the death rate in ICE custody has more than doubled since Trump’s second term began, reaching nearly four times the rate under the Biden administration and more than two and a half times the rate during Trump’s first term.

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