i'm nermeen shaikh. continue our conversation with henry siegman, the former executive director of the american jewish congress, long described as one of the nation's big three jewish organizations along with the american jewish committee and the anti-defamation league. his father was a leader of the european zionist movement, pushing for the creation of a jewish state. he now serves as president of the u.s./middle east project. amy goodman sat down with him in late may. amy: i want to go to the issue of the ministers, prime minister netanyahu has now chosen working with him. earlier this month, he appointed knesset member as his justice minister. during israel's summer 2014 attack on gaza, she approvingly posted an article on her facebook page that called for the destruction of "the entire palestinian people, including its elderly and its women, it cities and its villages, its property and its infrastructure." >> yes. a list of appointees, ministerial and non-ministerial appointees, beginning with her.

i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. turn now to a sweeping climate change declaration issued by the world's leading islamic scholars calling on the world's 1.6 billion muslims to do their part to eliminate dangerous greenhouse gas emissions and turned toward renewable energy sources. the declaration urges world leaders meeting in paris later this year to commit to a 100% zero-emissions strategy and to invest in decentralized renewable energy in order to reduce poverty and the catastrophic impacts of climate change. the declaration comes on the heels of the publication of pope francis's encyclical on the environment earlier this year, which also calls for sweeping action on climate change. like the encyclical, this declaration, endorsed by more than 60 leading islamic scholars, links climate change to the economic system, stating -- "we recognize the corruption that humans have caused on the earth due to our relentless pursuit of economic growth and consumption." it places special emphasis on richer countries and communit

nermeen: and i am nermeen shaikh. as scientists warn 2015 is on hottest year on record -- pace to become the earth's hottest year on record president obama has unveiled his long-awaited plan to slash carbon emissions from u.s. power plants. during a speech at the white house, obama said no challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than a changing climate. president obama: climate change is no longer about the future for our children or grandchildren, but the reality that we are living with every day. we cannot say any single weather event is entirely caused by climate change, we have seen stronger storms, deeper droughts, longer wildfire seasons. charleston and miami now flood at high tide. shrinking icecaps force national geographic to make its biggest change in its atlas since the soviet union broke apart. over the past three decades nationwide asthma rates have more than doubled and climate change puts those americans at greater risk of landing in the hospital. as one of america's governors has said, w

s nermeen shaikh and i recently sat down with director hubert sauper to discuss, "we come as friends,the film took him six years to make. his 2004 film, "darwin's nightmare," was nominated for an academy award. i began by asking sauper about the message he hoped to convey in his new film. friends" is my latest film. the title includes arty the most cynical line that you can imagine somebody trying to take over a land to say, we're here is your friend, we just want to help. which is basically the case. -- i was trying to describe the pathology -- pathological mindset of colonialism, which is not over. it is still happening. that aree elements very important of colonialism is landgrab. colonialism is taking the land of someone else and not only the land, but also the workforce in the control over the people on the land. so i found this specific story of one specific landgrab in south sudan and south sudan became independent of 600,000 ares being taken away from local committee, basically, by one contract, by one company, by one man, basically, from texas. the institute in oakland had re