Leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was right when he said a week after the massacre in Orlando that Israel profiles Muslims as a counterterrorism tool.

I recently had the opportunity to personally experience the selection process between Jewish and Arab citizens. On my way back late at night from a Ramadan visit to Ramallah, my taxi was stopped for a routine inspection at an Israeli checkpoint. I had often passed through the checkpoint in my own car, was greeted by the guard and waved on. This time, a quick glance at the driver’s face and a peek at his identity card were enough to send us to the lane reserved for special inspections. The ID card was blue, just like mine: Israeli-issued.

But alas, the name, Abed, gave the driver away. So did his address, an Arab neighborhood of Jerusalem. It would seem that the security guards had not heard the prime minister’s announcement earlier this month that the city is united. While waiting for the examination to end, after putting our things through an x-ray machine, we were joined by a woman and two young men who appeared to be her sons. They were on their way back to the town of Ramle, in the very center of Israel.

“What are you getting so upset about?” one of the young men asked me. “This is nothing. You should come here in the midday hours and see the line straggling through here.”