When Cornell students see classmates posting about the Israel-Hamas war, or Israeli flags waving on campus, I imagine many wonder why Israel is important to their peers. Most pro-Israel students are simply American Jews, yet their passion for a faraway country the size of New Jersey is personal and paramount. There are those who feel differently, who can’t hold two truths: the ability to disagree with a country’s government, and the incredible importance of the existence of a Jewish state in the homeland critical to Judaism. Israel is inherently connected to Jewish cultural and religious practice, but, could you take the Israel connection out of being Jewish? Preview: only with…