Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

Lewy’s works span several topics, but he is most often associated with his book on the Vietnam War and his works that deal with the applicability of the term genocide to various historical events. In 1939, he immigrated to Palestine and then to the United States. He has been on the faculties of Columbia University, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts. He currently lives in Washington, D.C. and is a frequent contributor to Commentary.

major publications

• The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies (2001)
• The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey: A Disputed Genocide (2005)
  

relevant publications

• The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey: A Disputed Genocide (2005)
• Revisiting the Armenian Genocide, Middle East Quarterly, Fall 2005

Source: Revisiting the Armenian Genocide, Middle East Quarterly, Fall 2005.

"Most of those who maintain that Armenian deaths were premeditated and so constitute genocide base their argument on three pillars: the actions of Turkish military courts of 1919-20, which convicted officials of the Young Turk government of organizing massacres of Armenians, the role of the so-called "Special Organization" accused of carrying out the massacres, and the Memoirs of Naim Bey which contain alleged telegrams of Interior Minister Talât Pasha conveying the orders for the destruction of the Armenians. Yet when these events and the sources describing them are subjected to careful examination, they provide at most a shaky foundation from which to claim, let alone conclude, that the deaths of Armenians were premeditated."

Source: The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey: A Disputed Genocide

 "It was not until 1965, the fiftieth anniversary of what Armenians began to call the first genocide of the twentieth century, that Armenians in Soviet Union and worldwide diaspora started to focus new attention on the events of 1915-16. History became a tool to highlight the suffering and injustices suffered by the Armenian nation". P. 258

 "Supporters of the Armenian cause have referred to the alleged Turkish genocide of the Armenians as an "established, incontrovertible historical fact" thus making it a closed issue similar to the Jewish Holocaust that would be questioned only by pseudo-historians such as Arthur Butz and Robert Faurisson. Yet the scholars who signed the Open Letter and who have questioned the appropriateness of the genocide label cannot be dismissed as a fringe group; they include some of the best-known experts on the history of Turkey". P. 262

"As mentioned earlier, some Armenians use the word "genocide" not as a legal concept but as a term of moral opprobrium that castigates the deportation and its attending huge loss of life as a grave moral evil." P. 271

Please also see Lewy’s comprehensive interview with Today’s Zaman "No Evidence of Ottoman Intent to Destroy Armenian Community".