The artist/journalist Ben Heine from Belgium, recently posted an image to his DevianArt page. According to Ben in a post to the Don Quichotte Cartoon Committee Yahoo group:
Hello DQ members, as I expected it, my illustration “God is Love – Use Condoms” has been deleted and censored by DeviantArt. So I uploaded it again with a “mature content” filter. It was deleted again! A few hours later, I was banned permanently…
See what DeviantArt is, it allows huge collections of images with genitals everywhere but not a little drawing defying the Establishment… I find this pitiful. It seems that political art doesn’t have its place on this “Big Brother” site. How does DA dare to call itself “Deviant” then?! Anyway, I send this mail to suggest you to not open an account on DeviantArt as something like that could happen to you too. Ok, this is a shocking cartoon, but hey, it will never be as shocking as what the Pope said in his plane to Africa… If you support individual freedom of expression, I beg you to post this image on your site, download it in high resolution, print it, etc, so that it can be seen by more people… thanks.. Ben
It is well know to many of us who produce art in support of Palestinians that members of the DeviantArt community selectively attack such works as ‘anti-Semitic’ to have them censored and removed by the DeviantArt administration. Generally, we have been able to counter these attacks by Zionists by simply designating our works as ‘mature due to sensitive subject’ labels. This makes the removal of Ben’s work all the more baffling.
As Ben stated, he even labeled his art as ‘mature’ only to find it still removed. Shame on you DeviantArt! Simple searching of the DeviantArt site will uncover many images of male and female nudity with questionable or obvious lack of artistic merit. I’ve seen some photographs that wouldn’t even reach the level of bad pornography of the amateur kind.
Now Ben’s page on DeviantART is embty with a note saying “This person has been banned from deviantART permanently” all support & solidarity to Ben & to all the real ART!!
DeviantARTdeleted one of my artwork uploaded on my page there, the artwork name was “Q. And babies?” I uploaded it in 2009-01-18, today they noted my saying:
The administrator who deleted your 1 deviation added the following: Deleted due to Policy Violation.
The work(s) listed below have been removed by staff due to a violation of deviantART policy or because its theme or content was judged unacceptable. Your deviantART submissions must obey certain guidelines and restrictions.
If you are uncertain why the submission was removed or if you have any questions or believe this removal to be an error please contact the deviantART Help Desk.
Title: Q. And Babies?
URL: [link]
Submitted: 2009-01-18 9:13:35 am
Your deviation Q. And Babies? was reported for Prohibited Content. The report was reviewed by a member of the Staff and action was taken, deleting the deviation and marking the report as Resolved. Additionally, the following comment was provided: Immediate action taken.
This message was generated automatically.
— deviantART Staff
This isn’t the 1st time deviantART deletes anti-Zionism artworks, they did that before with NMI for uploading anti-Zionism artworks containing photos of wounded children in Gaza. Who ever the one reported my artwork I would just say GO FUCK YOUR SELF! And we will never give NO more ignorance.
DeviantART deleted No More Ignorance’s anti-zionism deviations & journals, the content deleted was photos of children killed or wounded in Gaza…
The N.M.I. is a movement for graphic designers around the world working on spreading the truth about the Palestinian, Iraqi conflicts using designs for artists round the world.
All support for you guys & there will never be just NO MORE IGNORANCE!!!
انا نفسي اكتب عن اللي حصل في قافلة يوم الجمعه اللي فات بس يمكن غالبني الإحباط ، هحاول قريب لأن الإحباط مكانش سببه الوحيد هو قمع الأمن و تحديد حرية تنقلنا على ارض البلد اللي المفروض إنها بلادنا، و لكن السبب الرذيسي هو سيناء اللي مرجعتش كامله لينا و اللي دم كل جندي استشهد على أرضها بيلعن السادات الف مليون مره مع طلعة كل نهار!!!ـ
