ABSTRACT
Riots and Attacks of May 1921 If the appointment of Sir Herbert Samuel and his first ten months in office had given the Yishuv as a whole the luxury of believing that Arab attacks and 'pogroms' were a thing of the past, then the events of May and June 1921 came as a profound shock. Sharp disillusionment replaced the optimism which had been bound up in the Yishuv's reliance on 'its' HC. In the wake of May and June, the 'security-obsession' of the few zealots spread to a wider circle, and the paramount importance of greater self-reliance became obvious to all.
