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Sanders wins greater say in Democratic platform; names pro-Palestinian activist

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Cornel West and Bernie Sanders.
Sanders’s slate includes James Zogby, a longtime activist for Palestinian rights as well as a DNC member and official. His inclusion is a sign of Sanders’s plans to push the party’s policy on Israel toward what he has called a more even-handed approach to the Palestinian cause. Sanders also named Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota, among his most prominent elected backers, author and environmental activist Bill McKibben and Native American activist Deborah Parker. Sanders’s picks include people from outside the usual sphere of party influence, including a Native American activist and author and racial justice activist Cornel West.
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