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To be honest I googled up "NeoCons" and that was a nice mosaic. I didn't recognize every single person in it, though.

I'll try to identify them, maybe others can join in:

Top Row, left to right:
don't know, don't know, Robert Gates?, Bill Kristol, don't know

Second Row:
don't know, Paul Wolfowitz, Joe Lieberman, don't know, don't know

Third Row:
David Frum, don't know, don't know, Charles Krauthammer, Bibi Netenyahu

Fourth Row:
Don't know, don't know, Scooter Libby, don't know, Bob Novack.

(Robert Novack, if that's who it is, wasn't a NeoCon and frequently argued against their projects like the invasion of Iraq.

The NeoCon movement was started by, and dominated by Jewish intellectuals who had previously been Trotskyites. Irving Kriston (Bill's father) is usually considered the founder.

There are some prominent NeoCons who aren't Jewish: Jeanie Kirkpatrick, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz Cheney, Condalizza Rice, and of course no list would be complete with John Bolton.

In the current crisis the top visible NeoCons driving this disaster are: Victoria Nuland, her husband Robert Kagan, and again like a bad penny: David Frum ("Axis of Evil") who is editor of the Atlantic Magazine now. Of course the wole NeoCon journalist group is in for the ride: Bill Kristol, David Brooks, David French, The Bullwark, etc.

Irving Kristol literally "wrote the book" about Neoconservaism:

Which I have read and is a good book, albeit not an objective look at the movement.

A critique was published a while back by Jeffrey Sachs, who I'll note is himself Jewish. Here's a link, I'll excerpt it at length:

Ukraine Is the Latest Neocon Disaster

The main message of the neocons is that the US must predominate in military power in every region of the world, and must confront rising regional powers that could someday challenge US global or regional dominance, most important Russia and China.
The war in Ukraine is the culmination of a 30-year project of the American neoconservative movement. The Biden Administration is packed with the same neocons who championed the US wars of choice in Serbia (1999), Afghanistan (2001), Iraq (2003), Syria (2011), Libya (2011), and who did so much to provoke Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The neocon track record is one of unmitigated disaster, yet Biden has staffed his team with neocons. As a result, Biden is steering Ukraine, the US, and the European Union towards yet another geopolitical debacle. If Europe has any insight, it will separate itself from these US foreign policy debacles.
The neocon outlook is based on an overriding false premise: that the US military, financial, technological, and economic superiority enables it to dictate terms in all regions of the world.
The neocon movement emerged in the 1970s around a group of public intellectuals, several of whom were influenced by University of Chicago political scientist Leo Strauss and Yale University classicist Donald Kagan. Neocon leaders included Norman Podhoretz, Irving Kristol, Paul Wolfowitz, Robert Kagan (son of Donald), Frederick Kagan (son of Donald), Victoria Nuland (wife of Robert), Elliott Cohen, Elliott Abrams, and Kimberley Allen Kagan (wife of Frederick).
The main message of the neocons is that the US must predominate in military power in every region of the world, and must confront rising regional powers that could someday challenge US global or regional dominance, most important Russia and China. For this purpose, US military force should be pre-positioned in hundreds of military bases around the world and the US should be prepared to lead wars of choice as necessary. The United Nations is to be used by the US only when useful for US purposes.
This approach was spelled out first by Paul Wolfowitz in his draft Defense Policy Guidance (DPG) written for the Department of Defense in 2002. The draft called for extending the US-led security network to the Central and Eastern Europe despite the explicit promise by German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher in 1990 that German unification would not be followed by NATO's eastward enlargement. Wolfowitz also made the case for American wars of choice, defending America's right to act independently, even alone, in response to crises of concern to the US. According to General Wesley Clark, Wolfowitz already made clear to Clark in May 1991 that the US would lead regime-change operations in Iraq, Syria, and other former Soviet allies.
The neocons championed NATO enlargement to Ukraine even before that became official US policy under George W. Bush, Jr. in 2008. They viewed Ukraine's NATO membership as key to US regional and global dominance. Robert Kagan spelled out the neocon case for NATO enlargement in April 2006:
[T]he Russians and Chinese see nothing natural in [the "color revolutions" of the former Soviet Union], only Western-backed coups designed to advance Western influence in strategically vital parts of the world. Are they so wrong? Might not the successful liberalization of Ukraine, urged and supported by the Western democracies, be but the prelude to the incorporation of that nation into NATO and the European Union--in short, the expansion of Western liberal hegemony?

Anyone interested can read the rest at the link.

It's obvious that any group picture of NeoCons will be mostly Jewish guys, because it's a movement that is made up of mostly Jewish guys.

Of all the Jews in the world maybe .001% are NeoCons, so I'm not using the word as a codeword for "Jewish". I dislike some of the Goyish NeoCons as much or more than the Jewish ones (John Bolton, John McCain), and highly value Jewish paleocons and MAGA types like Prof. Paul Gottfried.

So no it's not "the joooos", it's "the NeoCons".