Pogroms were violent, destructive outbreaks against Jewish populations—an atrocity periodically carried out in Eastern European history, and more recently leading up to and during World War II. The occupying forces’ threats stir up this fear among Palestine’s Jewish population. The overall fear—that even the British might instigate a pogrom without censure from the wider world—suggests that, in wartime, people are capable of repeating even the worst acts of history.