See the suggested proof here. The thing I don't understand is that the functional $f\in(\ell^1)^*$, corresponding to a sequence $y\in\ell^\infty$ depends on the index $j$ in its definition. So let $f_j$. Then David Bowman shows that $(|f_j(x^{N_j})|)_{j=1}^{\infty}$ is strictly bounded away from zero for each $j\in\mathbb{N}$. Why does this contradict that $(x^{N_j})_{j=1}^{\infty}$ convergence weakly to $0$?
Edit: It looks like I just misread the definition. It does not depend on $j$.