Is neo-conservativism a "Jewish Persuasion"?
A book review by Gal Beckerman in America's oldest Jewish Newspaper says so...
SEE: The Neoconservative Persuasion by Gal Beckerman, Forward Newspaper
January 6, 2006 http://www.forward.com/main/printer-friendly.php?id=7102
January 6, 2006 http://www.forward.com/main/printer-friendly.php?id=7102
If there is an intellectual movement in America to whose invention Jews can lay sole claim, neoconservatism is it. It's a thought one imagines most American Jews, overwhelmingly liberal, will find horrifying. And yet it is a fact that as a political philosophy, neoconservatism was born among the children of Jewish immigrants and is now largely the intellectual domain of those immigrants' grandchildren. Understanding what might be Jewish about this movement (or "persuasion" as its godfather, Irving Kristol, prefers it be called) should be possible without being accused of conspiracy theorizing about secret cabals pulling strings for Israel.
