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Arab American leader James Zogby called the Democratic Party's contested platform regarding Israel meaningless and bashed the party for "doing something so dumb" as to reinsert language declaring Jerusalem the Jewish state's capital after a noisy and contested floor vote.
"You don't try to ram [an amendment] through on the floor and when you lose" proceed anyway, Zogby told a group of Muslim delegates Thursday during a "Gala Reception/Luncheon for Muslim Delegates" held on the sidelines of the Democratic National Convention.
Zogby slammed Obama and the Democratic Party for reconsidering its exclusion of language in the party platform that specifically referred to Jerusalem as Israel's capital, a policy declaration that appeared in both the 2004 and 2008 iterations of their platform.