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TIFU with accidental Islamophobia

My work does a donation program where several different charitable organizations pick up from us. Recently we've been trying to get more organized about which of the smaller orgs pick up what on which days, since they generally don't introduce themselves anymore (this program has been in place for a long time). One of the orgs is a group we just refer to as "The Terraces".

An older, vaguely Middle-Eastern looking guy came in and told me he was here to pick up. I asked which organization he was from, and he gave me a kind of non-answer, which I assumed was due to a language barrier, as he had a very heavy accent and somewhat broken English. I was halfway certain that this was one of The Terraces' pickup days, so I asked him "Are you from the The Terraces". He instantly looked a bit startled and offended, and replied "No! I am Israeli!". I corrected, and said "No, no, which organization are you from?". He understood what I was saying that time, and gave me the name of his org (not The Terraces), and then went about picking up the donation, but clearly was not happy with me.

It took a few minutes for me to realize what had happened. This guy 100% thought I had asked him "Are you from the terrorists?" and now thinks I am either a bigot who assumes all Middle-Eastern people are terrorists, or was being rabidly anti-Israel. I just wanted to know who you're picking up for, dude!

tl;dr: A guy thought I was accusing him of being a terrorist when I just needed to know who he worked for.

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