Daughter of Holocaust survivor wounded in Bondi: Terrorists being ‘taught to hate’ a bigger issue than gun control

Government authorities have not done enough to stamp out hatred of Jews in Australia, which has allowed it to fester in the aftermath of October 7, says the daughter of a Holocaust survivor who was wounded during the Bondi terror attack.

Victoria Teplitsky, 53, a retired childcare centre owner, says the father and son terrorists who went on a 10-minute shooting spree that killed 15 people had been “taught to hate,” which was a bigger factor in the attack than access to guns.

“It’s not the fact that those two people had a gun. It’s the fact that hatred has been allowed to fester against the Jewish minority in Australia,” she tells Reuters in an interview.

“We are angry at our government because it comes from the top, and they should have stood up for our community with strength. And they should have squashed the hatred rather than kind of letting it slide,” she says.

“We’ve been ignored. We feel like, are we not Australian enough? Do we not matter to our government?”

The attackers fired upon hundreds of people at a Hanukkah event during a roughly 10-minute killing spree.