it would seem that when kafka was writing ' the trial' he was predicting the apartheid organization known as israel;

Palestinians in the occupied West Bank are not allowed to travel internationally through Israel’s airport – they must cross into Jordan and fly from Amman. Israel, however, routinely imposes travel bans on Palestinians, citing ‘security reasons’ – many do not know they are banned from traveling until they arrive at the crossing. Between 2015 and 2019, Israeli NGO HaMoked filed 797 travel ban appeals, 65 percent of which were lifted. In other words, most bans are completely unjustified.

In September 2019, Amnesty International’s West Bank-based campaigner Laith Abu Zeyad was banned by Israel from accompanying his mother for medical treatment in Jerusalem. Israeli authorities subsequently even prevented him from seeing his mother before her death. In October 2019, Laith was also banned from traveling to Jordan to attend his aunt’s funeral.

In this piece, Laith reflects on a travel ban based on secret evidence and that can be extended indefinitely – a prisoner in his own land, he dreams of freedom.

I am a prisoner without a cell, a crime, or a conviction. My prison yard extends as far as what is left of my people’s lands in occupied Palestine. To go east, to Jordan, which is our only gateway to the rest of the world, there is a single bridge, one I am not allowed to cross. To go west, to other parts of the land stolen from us, and which Israel has made its own, I can only go as far as the nearest militarized checkpoint...........read more......