Pax Silica

Pax Silica Initiative
Type	US-led international semiconductor and AI supply chain alliance
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Website	https://www.state.gov/pax-silica
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Pax Silica

Pax Silica (full name: Pax Silica Initiative) is a US-led strategic alliance launched in December 2025 to build a secure, trusted semiconductor and artificial intelligence (AI) supply chain among allied democracies.

Founding members include the United States, Israel, United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, the Netherlands, the United Arab Emirates and Australia.

Israeli and Zionist Involvement

Israel is a founding member state. Its participation was negotiated and signed by high-level Israeli government officials, including Prof. Avi Simhon (Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister), Shmuel Abramson (Chief Economist at the Ministry of Finance), and Brig. Gen. (res.) Erez Askal (Head of the National Artificial Intelligence Directorate).

In January 2026, the United States and Israel signed a bilateral Memorandum of Understanding on Defence and AI Cooperation in Jerusalem to deepen collaboration under the Pax Silica framework.

Israeli high-tech industry is heavily integrated. Nvidia operates its largest R&D hub outside the United States in Israel (over 5,000 engineers in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Beersheba). As part of the initiative, Israel proposed a new multibillion-dollar Nvidia technology campus in Kiryat Tivon.

No privately owned Jewish or Zionist companies are documented as direct owners or operators of the Pax Silica framework itself; involvement is primarily through the Government of Israel and its official technology and defence agencies.

Key Objectives

• Secure and resilient semiconductor and AI supply chains
• Intelligence-sharing and coordinated action against supply-chain risks
• Joint development of advanced technologies, including defence-related AI

U.S. Leadership and Governance

The initiative is coordinated by the U.S. State Department. U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee attended the signing ceremony as an emissary of President Donald Trump.

Criticisms

Left-leaning outlets such as Mondoweiss have published an essay by William I. Robinson and M. Gürsan Şenalp which describes Pax Silica as a mechanism that integrates Western capital with Israeli surveillance and defence architectures.

Herein lies the key role that Israel plays in the new capital power axis. Israel is the world’s third largest tech hub. It globalized based on a high-tech-military-security-surveillance complex, integrated in turn into the webs of transnational finance capital. Like the larger global economy of which it is a part, it feeds off of permanent local, regional, and global violence, conflict, and inequalities. Endless rounds of destruction followed by reconstruction fuel profit-making not just for the arms industry, but for engineering, construction, and related supply firms, high-tech, energy, and numerous other sectors.

The Israeli genocide, to be followed now by the Board of Genocide are grisly laboratories for the new modality of transnational capital accumulation. The U.S. State Department has referred to the new global dispensation driven by the hegemonic capital bloc as Pax Silica. The Middle East has emerged as a regional corridor for Pax Silica predicated on an Israeli-Gulf state alliance that was to be cemented through the Board of Genocide inaugurated by Trump at the January 2026 World Economic Forum conclave.