With about 2,000 students arrested and many of those suspended from their campuses across America for their anti-Israel protests, it seems — at least from my visit to Fordham University — that things may be dying down in New York City. But keep praying.

At a press conference Wednesday New York City Mayor Eric Adams responded to police replacing a Palestinian flag flown at City University’s City College with the American flag:

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That’s our flag folks. You don’t take over our buildings and put another flag up. It’s despicable that schools will allow another country’s flag to fly in our country. So blame me for being proud to be an American. We’re not surrendering our way of life to anyone. This is a global problem that young people are being influenced by those who are professionals at radicalizing our children and I am not going to allow that to happen as mayor of the city of New York.

We’ve been praying that Mayor Adams — a former police officer — would do more about the rise in unrest in our city, so this is an answer to our prayers!

NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and Counterterrorism Rebecca Weiner said, “This is not about students expressing ideas, it is about a change in tactics that presents a concern.” She added that there has been “a normalization and mainstreaming of rhetoric associated with terrorism that has now become pretty common on college campuses.”

I’m praying that revival will spark in the very places these protests have been laying kindling of discontent.

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Rich Swingle has taught and performed in 39 nations on six continents, mostly with his own one-man plays. He and his bride Joyce Swingle, another contributing writer for IFA, have collaborated with Rev. Timothy J. Mercaldo to create a “singing play,” Songs of Revival: Hungry After God Himself. The Swingles live in New York City. www.RichDrama.com. Photo credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images.