The father of a Baruch College student who joined ISIS told a Manhattan federal jury that shame led him to lie about his son’s whereabouts — including telling people that the son had died in a car accident in Canada — because he didn’t want him to be “a terrorist man.”

Mohamed El-Goarany, of upstate Goshen, said he first learned his son Samy had gone rogue when he flew to Turkey — behind the FBI’s back — on a lone mission to find his child and bring him back to the US.

The family was working with the FBI at the time, but El-Goarany kept his May 2015 trip secret to protect his son, he said.

“I don’t want them to arrest Samy. If I bring him back with me they don’t arrest him,” he said at the trial of Ahemd el Gammal, who stands accused of helping Samy get to Syria through a friend in Turkey.

El-Goarany said he tracked his son down through el Gammal’s friend in Turkey, a journalist who confirmed at dinner that “Samy is now in Syria fighting” for ISIS, he said.

When El-Goarany returned to New York without Samy, federal agents were waiting for him at the door of his plane at Kennedy Airport, he said.

The real estate broker confessed to the feds his son was in Syria — but he denied it was because of ISIS.

“I didn’t want him to be arrested as a terrorist man,” he told the jury.

Later, after the family learned Samy died in Syria, he told people he perished in a car accident in Canada. “We say that to keep my son’s image as good,” said El Goarany.

At one point, he balled on the witness stand when talking about the first time he learned his son was missing, in Jan. 2015.

“I lost my son, what can I do?” he said. “Who’s going to bring my son back?”