Editor’s Note: In the following interview, from Réfléchir et Agir, September 2008, Hervé Ryssen talks about his book La mafia juive (The Jewish Mafia) (Levallois-Perret: Éditions Baskerville, 2008). We hope eventually to run a full-length review of the book. To read other translations from Ryssen and Michael O’Meara’s reviews of Ryssen’s books Les Espérances planétariennes and Psychanalyse du judaïsme, click here.
Translated by Greg Johnson
Réfléchir et Agir: You have published a fourth book on Judaism, a volume of 400 pages. Why another? Haven’t you said all there is to say?
Hervé Ryssen: I thought so too! But Judaism is a very closed world, very secret, thus after all these years of study, one still learns new things. This time, I explored the criminal world operating within the international Jewish community, and what one discovers there is, strictly speaking, incredible. The fact is that the Jewish Mafia is the main Mafia that exists today on this planet: racketeering, prostitution, drug trafficking, arms trading, contraband diamond smuggling, traffic in works of art, murder for hire, organized swindles, armed robberies, etc. Pornography, casinos, and discotheques are also largely held by Jewish gangsters.
R&A: You claim that international drug trafficking is mainly in the hands of the Jewish Mafia. Are you quite certain you are not overstating your case?
H. R.: I do not claim that the Jewish mafia controls most of the international illegal drug trade, since there are no statistics on the subject, but it does not appear incredible to me, judging by all information I could gather. The fact is that from the Chinese opium traffic of the nineteenth century to the present day, this mafia has been quite active in this field. In the traffic of ecstasy, one can say for certain that the Jewish mafia holds a monopoly. Today, ecstasy is the drug that is most harmful to European young people. A pill of ecstasy gives a feeling of strength and well-being for a few hours, but it is above all a veritable chemical garbage bin. Its long-term effects are alarming because irreversible: memory loss; behavioral, sleep, and concentration problems; brain lesions in the children of druggie mother. The premier producer is Holland, but the big traffickers who were arrested ten years ago in France, Belgium, the United States, or Australia, all have Israeli passports. The business of ecstasy is 100% in the hands of Jewish gangsters, not all of whom come from Russia, since there are Sephardic traffickers as well. If you buy a pill of ecstasy, in every instance, you can be certain you are financing the Jewish mafia. Certain big ecstasy traffickers are also deeply involved in the heroin and cocaine trade.
R&A: Is the Jewish mafia connected with the famous Colombian drug cartels?
H. R.: There is no doubt. Here is just one example: on February 16th, 1993, the Russian police of Viborg, close to the Russo-Finnish border, near Saint Petersburg, seized more than a ton of Colombian cocaine disguised as cans of corned beef. It was an Israeli resident in Bogota, Elias Cohen, married to a Colombian in cahoots with one of the clans related to the Cali cartel, who managed the network along with one Yuval Shemesh. The final destination of the cocaine was a group of Israeli traffickers established in the Netherlands, headed by one Jacob Korakin, a kippa-wearing religious Jew from the diamond district of Antwerp.
R&A: Certain diamond traders of Antwerp, New York, and Tel-Aviv play a large role in the Jewish mafia, particularly in money laundering.
H. R.: Diamond traders are at the heart of money-laundering operations for the Colombian cartels. In Manhattan, 47th Street, which is the heart of their activity, is also the largest drug money laundry. A Rabbi Yosef Crozer was arrested in February 1990 while going to Brooklyn with suitcases and bags stuffed with small-denomination banknotes. He carried $300,000 every day. His co-operation with police made it possible the following month to arrest around 30 people in the Orthodox Jewish community. One of them was Avraham Sharir, another pious Jew who owned a gold shop on 47th Street and who proved to be one of the key characters in drug money laundering in New York. Sharir, an Israeli citizen of 45 years, confessed to laundering $200 million on behalf of the Cali cartel. His employees, who counted banknotes, were regularly obliged to go our for fresh air, because so many of the small bills had been rolled for use in snorting cocaine.
R&A: Certain religious Jews do not seem to have too many scruples, one might say . . .
H. R.: Even Hassidic Jews are deeply implicated in drug trafficking. In 2001, the police broke up a ring directed by Sean Erez, a Hassidic Jew who trafficked in ecstasy. The drug had been smuggled in the hats and prayer scrolls of these pious Jews, whom customs officers were not supposed to suspect.
In July 1998, the small diamond cutting community of Antwerp was strongly shaken by a series of arrests of Lubavitchers. It had been discovered that the diamond business in the Flemish city was a cover for the international heroin traffic. Fifteen kilos had been seized. An Orthodox Jew, Dror Hazenfratz, was the head of the network. Born in Haïfa, Hazenfratz had an Israeli passport as well as a Belgian identity card. Before the court, he appeared in traditional black garb—caftan, cap, and curls—which did not prevent him from being condemned to eleven years in prison. There are many other examples.
R&A: You go back to the “American” gangsters of the Thirties . . .
H. R.: Yes, I was also interested in these mythical gangsters who had worked with the Sicilian mafia. The Jewish gangsters were particularly involved in “Murder Incorporated,” a kind of mutual insurance company of assassination thanks to which a local leader could profit from the services of killers coming from another locality and thus avoid blame. Murder Incorporated was a gang made up of mainly Jewish gangsters, who took care of the crime syndicate’s dirty work. It is estimated that from 1933 to 1940 the organization was responsible of more than 700 assassinations, but some speak of 2000. Because firearms are too easily traceable, they preferred to kill their victims with drowning, knives, bats, piano wire, and especially ice picks. All this is also part of the history of the Jewish people.
R&A: Why don’t people talk about this?
H. R.: It is always the famous reflex of “projection” about which I spoke in my two preceding books. Jewish intellectuals always project on others that about which they feel guilty. They say they were victims of Communism, for example, when in fact they were the main instigators. In the same way, Freud projected a problem specific to the Jewish people—rampant incest—on a universal level, and everyone fell into the trap.
In the 1990s, the media spoke about the terrible “Russian Mafia.” But truth to tell, all the “Russian” gangsters who were arrested had Israeli passports. The biggest one, Semion Mogilevitch, a major trafficker of weapons who also prostituted hundreds of Russian and Ukrainian girls in Prague and Budapest, was stopped in Moscow in January 2008. In France, the Courrierinternational was the only newspaper that reported it, but obviously his Jewishness was not mentioned: he was “Russian”!
Likewise, in Hollywood cinema, the drug traffickers, gangsters, “bad guys,” if they are not Sicilian, are very often Nordic white men: never Jews! The cosmopolitan directors undoubtedly have something to do with this sleight of hand.
Source: http://storage.canalblog.com/21/91/516490/47626766.pdf
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Gangster Jews produce and distribute the Ecstasy. Geffen Records produces the defective singers. And the defective singers produce the sounds and conditions for the kids to take the Ecstasy. It really is that simple.
I look forward to hearing more about this book on the Jewish Mafia.
M. Raphael Johnson has written an excellent essay on the topic. See “The Judeo-Russian Mafia: From Gulag To Brooklyn To World Dominion.”
http://www.the-peoples-forum.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=9979
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0227005/
The nauseating movie Made features a Jewish crime boss, ordering around non-Jew henchmen. It is anomalous in that regard, and might be described as an exemplary example of excremental cinema.
“But Judaism is a very closed world, very secret, thus after all these years of study, one still learns new things.”
This is certainly True.
One who is gifted with Critical Thinking and Curiosity will find the study of Jewry to be a cornucopia of things to learn.
These beings have so many, many different characteristics about them that studying them would probably be akin to studying Extra-terrestrial Aliens.
In the US there developed a focus on Italian organised crime that was very fortuitous for Jews – their senior partners in the National Crime Syndicate.
From David C. Jordan, Drug Politics: Dirty Money and Democracies (University of Oklahoma Press, Norman. 1999):
p. 88
The U.S. National Crime Syndicate
Organized crime in the United States “(1) is not some random or episodic thing, but a patterned and structured activity; (2) finds and exploits opportunities for illicit gain; and (3) operates across time regardless of individual changes in personnel or leadership,” one observer has claimed. According to Peter A. Lupsha, “Organized crime in the United States tended to be dominated by an Italian-American-Jewish coalition. . . . Charles ‘Lucky’ Luciano’s group appeared paramount over all other so called ‘La Cosa Nostra’ groups, and with its multi-ethnic leadership mix, it acted as the link connecting Jewish and Italian organized crime across the United States.”59
The characterization of organized crime in America as uniquely Italian has led to a misdiagnosis of the range, extent, and multiethnic nature of the country’s National Crime Syndicate (NCS), which was designed to protect its leaders from competition, to provide funds for political protection, and to tax regional bosses according to their ability to pay. When the U.S. Senate’s McClellan Committee investigated organized crime in 1959, Meyer Lansky was identified as the head of the National Crime Syndicate.60
According to Hank Messick, the author of an in-depth study of Lansky, when a high-ranking Justice official was asked why the department placed emphasis on the mafia instead of the National Crime Syndicate, the man explained, “The Mafia was small and handy. The feeling was the American people would buy it with its family relations and blood oaths a lot quicker than they could understand the complex syndicate. You must remember, we wanted to get public support behind the drive on crime.”61
Born Maier Suchowljansky in Grodno, Russia, Meyer Lansky came to the United States in 1911 when he was nine years old. In time he filled the vacuum left by the previous brain of organized crime, Arnold Rothstein, the fixer of the 1919 World Series, who was murdered on November 4, 1928, in the Park Central Hotel of New York. Lansky, who had traveled about the country meeting with the bosses from Philadelphia to Kansas City, subsequently inspired the 1929 gangland convention held at the Hotel President in Atlantic City to search for additional sources of income. Lansky was the informal leader of the New York delegation which included Lucky Luciano and Joe Adonis. Other city or state organizations represented at the meeting were those of Cleveland, Detroit, Philadelphia, Kansas City, and New Jersey. This Atlantic City meeting demonstrated the multiethnic character of the NCS. 62
Although no formal organization was created at the Atlantic City meeting, Lansky initiated the New York group’s cooperation with the Cleveland syndicate. From that time on, arrangements were developed with other gangs throughout the United States, with Lansky the de facto chairman of the board.
Notes:
59. Peter A. Lupsha, “Organized Crime in the United States,” in Kelly, ed., Organized Crime, 4344, 51.
60. Hank Messick, Lansky (New York: Berkeley Medallion Books, 1971), 83, 242.
61. Ibid.
62. Cleveland was represented by Lou Rothkopf and Moe Dalitz, and the Detroit mob was led by Joe Bernstein’s Purple Gang, the operators of the so-called Little Jewish Navy on Lake Erie. Philadelphia’s representatives included Nig Rosen and Max “Boo Boo” Hoff. Tom Pendergast, the boss of Kansas City, sent one of his lieutenants, John Lazia. New Jersey’s representative was Abner “Longie” Zwillman.
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p.93:
The principal tool the Gaming Control Board of Nevada used to prevent criminal control of the casinos was the Black Book, ”a list of persons who are to be excluded from casinos in the state because of their perceived threat to the public image of gaming.”79
Because the majority of names in the Black Book were Italian, the impression given by the Nevada gaming board was that they had effectively barred organized crime from the gambling casinos. This impression was furthered by the McClellan crime investigations of 1957. Sidney Korshak, the first witness called before the McClellan Committee, was questioned by Robert Kennedy before the full committee on October 30, 1957. Kennedy was interested in a labor dispute that involved Korshak, who was tied to Willie Bioff, the “Hollywood extortionist.” Previously, in an FBI interview, Bioff had cited Korshak’s role and importance to the Chicago mafia.80 Nonetheless, the committee concluded that, “there was a ‘mafia’ operating in the United States of largely Italian and Italian-American origins. It was believed that this mafia was organized into regional ‘families’ that were structured bureaucratically, and that these families conspired to monopolize gambling, prostitution, and various rackets. These conclusions formed the basis for an ‘alien conspiracy theory’ of organized crime.”81 The failure to recognize the multiethnic character of the National Crime Syndicate allowed large numbers of non-Italians associated with the NCS to control gambling in Nevada, while the public was led to believe that the “mafia” was excluded.82
Notes:
79. Farrell and Case, Black Book, xi.
80. Modea, Dark Victory, 118.
81. Farrell and Case, Black Book, 37.
82. “The threat of organized crime is seen as emanating from Italians. So pervasive is this belief that, when Jews are identified with organized crime, they are seen as ‘fronting’ for Italians. Even when circumstances suggest that Jews control casinos and some Italians may be working for them, the evidence is sometimes twisted to fit with the more popular belief.” Ibid., 37, 38.
“The real leaders of crime have remained hidden while the nation’s law enforcement agencies have chased minor punks. And naïve is he who believes this development is accidental. Research reveals that non-Mafia leaders of crime have been hiding behind the vendetta-ridden society for decades. . . Attempts to frame me have been made, and I’ve been smeared as anti-Semitic from coast to coast by gangsters who used religion as a cloak.”
Hank Messick, Lansky (New York: Berkley Medallion Books, 1971), pp. 8-10.
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“At Lansky’s suggestion the organization took the name of Unione Siciliano, a corruption in spelling of the old fraternal organization.”
Carl Sifakis, The Mafia Encyclopedia (New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2005), p. 252
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In his Deep Politics and the Death of JFK Peter Dale Scott highlights an example from the the 1979 House Select Committee on Assassinations showing how this institutionalised bias worked at critical moments:
“[Quoting from the House Committee report]:
A major reason for suspecting conspiracy was Oswald’s murder by Jack Ruby. Organized crime – specifically the national syndicate known as La Cosa Nostra or the mafia – was a logical choice for study. A number of leads to organized crime existed, mostly through Ruby:
Ruby had moved from Chicago to Dallas in 1946, at a time when the Mafia was said to be moving into that city. It has been alleged that Ruby was a front man.
Ruby had made several unexplained phone calls to underworld figures in the months preceding the assassination.
(9 AH iii; cf. AR 160) [/endquote] Only from officials can logic like this be encountered. Oswald was killed by Ruby, a Jew; therefore, we should study [the Italian] La Cosa Nostra. Fifteen Chicago mobsters (according to the same memo, 9 AH 155) move into Dallas; only three of these are Italian; nine were Jewish (including Dave Yaras’s brother Sam Yaras, who also knew Ruby); therefore we should study La Cosa Nostra. Ruby called (according to the staff report, 9 AH 192-96) seven or eight “suspicious” (i.e., mob-linked) individuals; only one of these was Italian; therefore we should study the Italian mafia.”
Peter Dale Scott, Deep Politics and the Death of JFK (Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1993), pp. 183-4.
Scott invites us to decide for ourselves if this is an example of “unconscious bias which is the product of innocent self-deception,” “semi-conscious bias which is the product of self-adaptation to bureaucratic groupthink,” or “conscious bias, or what might be called contrived bias, the purpose of which is to deceive others.” [pp.182-3]