Gun Free Kitchen Tables (GFKT)
Gun Free Kitchen Tables (GFKT), founded in 2010, is a small arms disarmament and gun control project of Isha L’Isha Feminist Center. Leading the Gun Free Kitchen Tables Coalition (currently numbering 16 organizations), we work to disarm civil space in Israel and in the territories under its control. Rooted in a feminist analysis, GFKT aims to stem the violence enabled by ubiquitous small arms through preventive legislation, effective enforcement and comprehensive transparency about guns in civil space. GFKT incorporates consistent monitoring and fact-finding towards significantly reducing armed violence against women in and beyond their homes and holding both armed organizations and individuals accountable.
GFKT is growing a movement which strongly resists the current acceleration of small arms proliferation, by Israel’s government, and its increasing evasion of accountability. This young disarmament and gun control movement voices firm demands for preventive measures, transparency and accountability. It tracks and denounces the abuse of small arms by security personnel as well as civilians and promotes tightened oversight. GFKT rejects the fallacy that more guns mean more security.
