The daughter of a Bondi Beach terror attack victim has taken aim at the ABC in a live interview, accusing the broadcaster of bias over its reporting on Israel.

Speaking to News Breakfast hosts James Glenday and Emma Rebellato, Victoria Teplitsky said her 86-year-old father was shot as he attempted to escape the gunmen on Sunday night and has since undergone surgery in hospital.

But she also gave the hosts an unfiltered opinion of the national broadcaster’s news.1/1 Skip Ad Continue watchingafter the ad
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‘My father was seated – being elderly,’ she told the ABC presenters. 

‘He was here to celebrate Hanukkah, which is light and positivity into the world.

‘He was seated and as soon as he got up he was shot in the lower leg. He fell down, massive hole in the leg, obviously in a lot of pain.

‘His girlfriend was seated next to him and she thought fast and she took off her belt and she made a tourniquet around his leg because there was a lot of blood.

‘He’s 86, he’s a Holocaust survivor, he’s a survivor of anti-Semitism in the ex-Soviet Union, he grew up tough, my dad, and he brought us here to Australia because he didn’t want my brother and I to go through the same experience… and we didn’t for many years – until October the seventh 2023.’

ABC New Breakfast hosts James Glenday and Emma Rebellato (left) interviewed Victoria Teplitsky (right), whose father was shot in the leg during the Bondi Beach terror attack

Ms Teplitsky slammed the ABC for its ‘bias’ news reporting following the October 7 Hamas terror attack in Israel

When asked by Glenday how she was feeling after the terror attack, Ms Teplitsky said she was ‘angry’ with the nation’s politicians and the public broadcaster. 

‘How are we feeling? Is this what you wanted? Is this enough now? Will you listen to us?’ she replied.

‘(Anthony) Albanese? (Penny) Wong? Will you listen to us? Will you do something?

‘And ABC, I’ve got to say, will you cut out the biased reporting… will you cut it out? Will you let us have a voice?’

She claimed the Jewish community had experienced a shift in Australia due to news reporting following the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack in Israel.

‘We feel that it’s part of the reason that the Jewish people have experienced such a massive change in Australia.

‘I’m Aussie. I’m not a religious Jewish woman but since October 7th, since all the hatred that’s been thrown at us, I started to wear my Magen David (Star of David necklace) because I’m Jewish.

‘If you have something to say, you can say it to me. ABC please stop with the biased reporting.’

Rebellato expressed her sympathy to Teplitsky but did not address her claims about the ABC. 

‘Victoria, we are so sorry for what you have been through and what you’re going through and we really hope that your father recovers,’ she said.

‘I know all of us here … we are horrified by what is going on, so thank you for joining us and sharing your story.’

It comes as Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke was heckled at a memorial for victims of Bondi Beach massacre.

Thousand paid their respects at Bondi Beach on Monday night to the 15 innocent people who lost their lives.

Burke faced a frosty reception from a group of mourners when he arrived.

‘Blood on your hands Tony Burke!’ one man called out.

A woman yelled out: ‘Shame Tony Burke, shame!’

Burke was heckled several hours after state and territory leaders agreed to overhaul gun ownership laws at an emergency cabinet meeting called for by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

The Albanese government has faced strong criticism over its handling of antisemitism in the wake of the October 7, 2023 attacks in Israel.