Michigan student ranted about being released from mental hospital after attacking Jewish activist: report
The crazed student who attacked a Jewish influencer during a debate at the University of Michigan has been identified in online posts as a Mongolian-American activist, who raved about having just been released from a mental hospital, according to her victim.Temulun Togochog, a student at the university, is known for advocating for the rights of ethnic Mongolians living under Chinese rule in Inner Mongolia, according to watchdog group StopAntisemitism.“She said she had been in a mental institution before and she would be happy to go back if it meant she got to kill me,” Jewish activist Lizzie Benichou told Fox and Friends on Monday.Benichou said the attack occurred during a “Liberty Under Fire USA tour stop” and claimed her attacker had been “identified as a supporter of Abdul El-Sayed”, the Muslim Democratic candidate for US Senate in Michigan.In bizarre posts shared online, Togochog, who claimed to have been in a mental institution in the past, showed off her collection of mental health prescriptions and posed provocatively in revealing images shared online.Her public profiles have seen been taken down or made private.In one TikTok video shared to X, she boasts about her medications, including Aripiprazole, an antipsychotic medication commonly prescribed for schizophrenia; Lamotrigine, which treats for bipolar disorder; and Sertraline, an SSRI antidepressant also used for anxiety and OCD.In 2026, Togochog was picked as the youngest speaker at the International Religious Freedom Summit in 2026, where she was praised for her commitment to “advocating for her people, who live there under intense oppression from the Chinese government.”In the viral video of the attack, the woman believed to be Togochog was seen approaching the conservative activists Cam Higby and Joe Redden, who were displaying signs reading: “Is Islam compatible with Western values?” and “Is Islam evil?”Benichou said she was hosting an open debate on the Ann Arbor campus when ...