Define ‘Neocon’.
Neocon is a term used to describe someone who's not an actual conservative but pretends to be a "new" version of one in order to hijack a conservative movement in part or whole, to redirect it to support the Neocons' agenda.
“Define ‘Neocon’.
It is often used as a pejorative term on FreeRepublic. It seems to mean hawks who advocate wars abroad. There’s a hint that these hawks are Jewish.
I have The Essential Neoconservative reader, though I never read it. It’s 496 pages and was published in 1996 before Neocon became a negative term. The authors examine numerous topics beside foreign affairs. From their names, I assume that some are Jewish, others not.
One review:
During the 30 years between Kennedy and Gingrich, the political world witnessed the evolution and proliferation of a new political species: the neoconservatives. Strangers to the older conservatism of patrimony and tradition, neoconservatives are (with a few exceptions) liberals who have broken ranks, turning against a liberal orthodoxy that they find increasingly deceptive. Thus, it was mostly his fellow liberals that Norman Podhoretz offended with his famous 1963 essay “My Negro Problem—and Ours.” Since the 1960s, numerous writers (including Nathan Glazer, Irving Kristol, Michael Novak, Jean Kirkpatrick, Richard John Neuhaus, Patrick Moynihan, and Thomas Sowell) have joined in the neoconservative ranks ...