Progressive Long Island congressional candidate caught liking anti-Jewish posts: horrible antisemitic and ugly

A Long Island Congressional candidate’s social media “likes” are full of hate.Suffolk County political hopeful Lukas Ventouras keeps giving the digital thumbs up to posts by Slums of the Hamptons, a year-old Instagram account studded with content which mocks Jews’ fears of rising antisemitism, lampoons Jewish celebrities and the Israeli Defense Forces.The 25-year-old NYU grad — who faces off against 36-year-old Chris Gallant in the June 23 Democratic primary — is vying to represent tens of thousands of Jewish people in the First District, which stretches from parts of northern Suffolk County to include all of Long Island’s tony East End.In May, Ventouras commented with a laughing emoji on a vile Slums of the Hamptons post that implied Jerry Seinfeld flosses with human organs from Palestinians, according to a review of his social media, a move which felt “like a gut punch,” locals said.“It felt like he really identified with his horribly antisemitic post,” one Hamptonite lamented to The Post.“It tells me that he endorses this antisemitic blood libel.”The law school student — who in a debate last month demonized Israel for “land stolen from Palestinians”— has also “liked” crass posts about Jews and trafficked in harmful antisemitic tropes from his official candidate account.Ventouras’ official account also “liked” an April 10 post trolling local “establishment dems,” who, the off-color page wrote, are considering “rolling over and dying.” The post — targeting Suffolk County Democrats — was captioned, “Suburban Dems appear to support war, Epstein class, billionaires, for-profit health care, Israel.

What are they against?”Outraged Hamptonites blasted the insensitivity.“As a Jewish resident of the Hamptons, I condemn the horrible antisemitic and ugly manifestation of the anti-Jewish activities of this candidate,” Mitchel Agoos, who’s supporting Republican incumbent Nick LaLota, told The Post. “I conde...