Antisemitism today rarely announces itself with a slur.
It can show up as an accusatory boycott campaign, a loud protest, a canceled contract, and a quiet decision to route business around Israel and the Jewish community entirely. The challenge is that irrational hostility towards Jews and the State of Israel cannot solely be countered by logic alone. No matter the volume of resources poured into combating this scourge directly, we cannot always reason with minds poisoned by hatred and division—especially when driven purely by antisemitism and opposition to the world's only Jewish state.
Yet, this hate can be circumvented. Across the United States, strong bilateral economic initiatives with Israel that connect businesses, generate employment, foster groundbreaking research, and integrate entire industry ecosystems create the very bonds that are hardest to break.
Here in Colorado, the facts speak for themselves...
When an Israeli company chooses Colorado to open its U.S. engineering hub (Ramon.Space) or its Western U.S. operations offices (Melio and NiCE) or its North American headquarters (Bacarra USA—COIL Chamber Silver Level Member), or when an Israeli company provides critical cybersecurity protection for the Denver Broncos (Checkpoint) or enables drip irrigation across Colorado's farm country (Netafim and N-Drip), these are the very activities that build the ties that bind between people, companies, and communities.
When a Colorado company chooses Israel to acquire a trusted aerospace partner firm and incorporate it in-country (Astroscale U.S. and Astroscale Israel), or open offices in the heart of Tel Aviv to support and expand its investments in Israeli technology startups (Ibex Investors—COIL Chamber Global Partner Sponsor), or receives BIRD Foundation grant funding for its R&D project with an Israeli partner in quantum technologies (Forge Nano and FieldLine Industries/Medical), these activities forge the ties that bind people, companies, and communities.
Colorado's Jewish community now holds a tangible counter to this hatred and division: a strategic economic partnership with Israel designed to defeat and defang boycott and isolation with a positive vision for the future—one investment and one partnership at a time.
On October 15th, we will celebrate what the Colorado-Israel innovation partnership has become and invite you to help build what comes next at the CO-IL Institute's Inaugural Gala at Safta Restaurant at The Source Hotel in Denver, Colorado.
This is the launch celebration of the Colorado-Israel Economic Partnership Institute, our newly IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. BMH-BJ Congregation has already joined the host committee, alongside Aurora's Mayor Mike Coffman, two Colorado state representatives, and a growing list of Denver's business and civic leaders.
We're reaching out to ask your community to join them, and there are three ways to do it.
See you there,
Jordan Kastrinsky, Co-Founder & Israel Director
Jeremiah Baronberg, Co-Founder & Colorado Director
