When former United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (pictured above) stepped foot onto New York University’s campus last week, leftist insults quickly followed.

The 1973 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, now 95 years old, was on campus as part of a speaker series at the Stern School of Business called “In Conversation with Lord Mervyn King.”

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A protest called “No War Criminals at NYU” occurred in response to his inclusion, and during his appearance he was told to “rot in hell.”

Fox News contributor Raymond Arroyo weighed in on the event Friday night on “The Ingraham Angle.”

“Even former GOP officials are not immune to this kind of harassment, ‘upsetment,’ anger,” Arroyo told host Laura Ingraham. “This is a private event, by the way, invitation only. They harassed him from 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.”

In all, about 100 students gathered to protest Kissinger’s appearance.

They chanted, “Hey, Kissinger, what do you say? How many kids have you killed today?” Other students held “Prosecute Kissinger” signs and attempted to disrupt the event. A total of 27 groups were involved with the protests, as Campus Reform and other outlets have reported. Such groups included NYC Democratic Socialists of America, NYU Against Fascism, and NYU’s branch of the International Socialist Organization.

One protester who interrupted the event told Kissinger that he “committed genocide against the peoples of the world” — while another said he “had blood on his hands.” Both of them were removed by event security.

The most absurd insult of the night was that Kissinger, who is Jewish, is a Nazi. In reality, he was born in the Weimar Republic in 1923 and fled Nazi Germany as a refugee teenager in 1938.

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Kissinger went on to serve in the United States Army in Counter Intelligence during World War II, reached the rank of sergeant, and was a Bronze Star recipient.

In the 1970s he worked under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, and played a key role in United States foreign policy, helping implement a strategy called “Realpolitik.”

Kissinger helped the United States reestablish relations with China under President Nixon in 1972, end socialist rule in Chile in 1973, and negotiate the Paris Peace Accords, ending America’s Vietnam War involvement in 1975.

However, as Arroyo pointed out, Kissinger was not the commander-in-chief at the time, so the leftist anger directed at him on NYU’s campus is misguided.

“The president [Richard Nixon] makes a decision to bomb Cambodia [in Operation Menu] or overthrow a dictator [in the 1973 Chilean coup d’etat],” he said, “That’s not up to the secretary of state. Why are they yelling at him? Go yell at Nixon’s grave over at Whittier [California].”

Check out the Kissinger segment from “The Ingraham Angle” below:

Tom Joyce is a freelance writer from the South Shore of Massachusetts. He covers sports, pop culture, and politics and has contributed to The Federalist, Newsday, and other outlets.