A Liverpool theater has pulled the plug on comedian Sundeep Bhardwaj’s upcoming show after Jewish News reported on his antisemitic social media posts describing “rich” Jews and comparisons of Israel to a virus that needs a “vaccine.”

Unity Theatre confirmed Wednesday that Bhardwaj, scheduled to appear July 10, would no longer perform at the venue following the revelations about his social media activity since the October,7 2023 Hamas massacre.

“The event in question is a private hire of Unity Theatre’s building and is not part of our artistic programme. We are not producing, promoting or endorsing the even,” Executive director of Unity Theatre Eleanor Manson-Sawko tells Jewish News.

Among his inflammatory content, Bhardwaj describes Israel as “all the problems in the world right now are coming from that one little experimental lab that has been set up in the Middle East,” labeling it an “illegitimate bullshit experiment that needs to be shut down” and suggesting “they need to wrap it up and find a vaccine for it.”

Another post declares: “Just wanted to let you know that the leading causes of antisemitism in the world is Israel. Another shows him wearing dollar bills to mock Orthodox Jewish payot while saying “The best things in life are free, but if you’re Israeli, the best things in life are stolen.”

As a comedian who declares his pronouns as “He/Hamas,” Bhardwaj didn’t take the cancellation quietly.

“The wonderful people at the Unity theatre in Liverpool have just written to me saying that they are cancelling the venue hire. Where am I going to find another venue in such a big city? I already found another one, bitches. Unity theatre, you can suck my tickets,” he shot back on Instagram.

His Liverpool performance was part of his “Ceasefire” comedy tour, which includes stops in Glasgow, London’s Comedy Store, and cities across Europe including Sweden and Norway. Tour promotional materials describe it as “Stand up comedy for a ceasefire in Palestine” covering topics from colonization and Middle East politics to “hummus, internet trolls, bots, tunnels, history, propaganda, lies, Elon Musk, ceasefire, and… COMEDY!”