Metro

‘Mideast’ battle on subways

A holy war is brewing on the city’s subways.

An controversial activist — incensed at a slew of underground billboards denigrating Israel — is threatening to sue the MTA if it doesn’t run her counter-ads likening enemies of the Jewish state to “savages.”

“This is an absolute free-speech issue,” said Pamela Geller.

“We’re preparing the paperwork as we speak.”

Her inflammatory ad was sent to the MTA a week ago, but she has yet to receive a response.

From past experience, Geller — co-founder of the American Freedom Defense Initiative — said it usually takes a matter of hours for approval. But this isn’t just any advertisement.

“In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man,” the ad states. “Support Israel. Defeat Jihad.”

The ad is meant as a response to more than a dozen subway-stations anti-Israel billboards put up in by a group called WESPACK since the beginning of the month.

Those ads feature pictures of smiling children with the message, “We are on the side of peace and justice. End US military aid to Israel.”

A less controversial rebuttal to those ads has already been approved by the MTA.

On Monday, the group Stand With Us will begin running its ads reading, “Israel Needs a Partner for Peace.”

The MTA declined comment.