City schools Chancellor David Banks will testify Wednesday at a House Education and the Workforce Committee hearing on antisemitism; expect the back-and-forth to get pretty brutal.

In a column for The Post, Banks lays out what he wants to say, but he’ll surely also face questions on a host of public-school controversies in the months since Hamas’ horrific Oct. 7 attack on Israel:

He’ll need to admit that antisemitism — not Islamophobia— is huge a problem in the city’s public schools, a system now under federal investigation over the issue.

And explain why his office’s response to rampant, mass hate at schools like Hillcrest (his alma mater!) and Origins looked so slow and weak.

“I wouldn’t say that I’m proud of what we’ve done,” Banks said last month of the DOE’s response to the post-Oct. 7 school turmoil.

Indeed, this mess is only one more sign that Banks exercises at best limited control of the vast bureaucracy he officially oversees. (The fact that he took office vowing to shrink that beast, but instead has seen it grow, is another hint.)

We fear his testimony is unlikely to come off looking much better than the disastrous performances from university presidents like Harvard’s now-ex-prez Claudine Gay.