Brooklyn Republican and staunch Zionist Inna Vernikov made the vow Tuesday regarding her share of council members’ annual discretionary funds – which this fiscal year total $810,000 – in response to video posted on X of Jewish activist Mark Meyer Appel shaking hands with the pro-Palestine Mamdani.

“I know it may not be much, but just a small PSA [Public Service Announcement] for the orgs who will be seeking discretionary funding from me for the next four years: In my discretion, I will NOT fund organizations whose leadership supports Hamas sympathizers and October 7th apologists,” Vernikov said on X.

“So if you want to be like @MarkMeyerAppel, and support or do photo ops with @Zohran Mamdani, don’t even bother calling,” she added, accusing Appel of “commie/jihadi a– kissing.”

And she doubled down Friday, telling The Post “If someone allows themselves to be in a photo with Mamdani, they’re either supporting him or pandering to him.”

“Either way, I will defund them,” she said.

Some Democratic Council sources contended Vernikov’s remarks were over the top.

“How can you make a blanket statement that you’re not giving a group money but because someone appears in a photo op?” a source said.

Council Minority Leader Joann Ariola (R-Queens) wouldn’t comment on Vernikov’s rhetoric but said nonprofits should be apolitical.

“They should be focused on their goals of helping New York, not on illegal performative activism,” she said.

Appel’s Flatbush-based group, The Bridge Multicultural and Advocacy Project, scored $60,000 in political pork from the Council in this fiscal year’s budget, but none from Vernikov, records show.

Messages left with Appel were not returned.

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