By dailymail.co.uk/news translation saved Lewis wrote that he was walking with a friend in the city when “suddenly a group of 6-8 Palestinian men came up to me and asked me where I was. “I answered and said, 'New York,'” he added, saying that the men had demanded to know if he was Jewish. “I saw them take the knives off. I obviously said no. The guy looked at me with such disgust in his eyes and said,“ Okay, ”Lewis continued. It is unclear whether Lewis is himself a Jew and was forced to lie to protect himself. His agent did not immediately respond to a request for comment from DailyMail.com. Luca Robert Lewis, a 20-year-old goalkeeper who was recently called up to the Majors, told an Instagram post that the incident took place Thursday night in New York. Lewis said that he started to leave, but “got really angry and felt like I had to say something,” and then turned around and asked, “What if I was Jewish? “The same guy says,“ I’ll beat the f'in s't out of you and kill you, ”Lewis recalls, saying that the man then started charging him, but was stopped by several women who were with his group. "Fortunately, my friend and I were fine. However, if I were clearly Jewish, I don't know what would have happened to me," Lewis wrote.