David Banks, the Chancellor of NYC Schools, must address Congress about the issue of woke antisemitism.

City schools Chancellor David Banks will be giving testimony at a House Education and the Workforce Committee hearing on antisemitism. The discussions are expected to be intense.

In an op-ed for The Post, Banks outlines his intended message, but he will likely also face questioning regarding various controversies in public schools following the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas:

• A perceived double standard where the city Department of Education allows teachers to post antisemitic or anti-Israel content on social media while a teacher who posted “let Gaza burn” was removed from their school.

• The Jewish global history teacher at Origins HS in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, who was a victim of repeated antisemitic behavior by students and then faced repercussions for speaking out. The school witnessed Jewish faculty and students being taunted with “death to Israel” chants, swastikas drawn on chalkboards, and threatening emails calling for the extermination of all Jews.

• The Hillcrest HS riot involving hundreds of students targeting a Jewish teacher in Queens after she posted a photo with an “I Stand With Israel” sign.

• A Qatar-funded Arab studies program that displayed a map in classrooms labeling Israel as “Palestine” in support of the slogan “From the river to the sea.”

He will need to acknowledge that antisemitism, not Islamophobia, is a significant problem in the city’s public schools, which are currently under federal investigation for this issue.

Banks will have to explain why the DOE’s response to widespread hate at schools like Hillcrest and Origins seemed slow and ineffective.

“I wouldn’t say that I’m proud of what we’ve done,” Banks commented last month regarding the post-Oct. 7 school turmoil.

This situation reflects Banks’ limited control over the extensive bureaucracy he oversees. (His initial promise to reduce the bureaucracy, which has instead grown, adds to this perception.)

There are concerns that his testimony may not present a more favorable picture than the troubled performances of university presidents like Harvard’s former president Claudine Gay.