Six nations listed on Trump’s controversial executive order, which prohibits citizens of seven countries from visiting the US, also impose travel bans of their own.

According to information supplied by IATA, the International Air Transport Association, Syria, Sudan, Iran, Iraq, Yemen and Libya all forbid Israeli passport holders from entering their countries, along with 10 other nations: Algeria, Bangladesh, Brunei, Kuwait, Lebanon, Malaysia, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Furthermore, eight of those counties – Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Yemen and Libya – do not accept passports that contain Israeli visas.

Libya also enforces a separate ban on Iranian, Syrian and Palestinian visitors.

Somalia is the only nation on President Trump’s list that does not prohibit Israeli visitors, though Israelis are banned by their own government from travelling to the East African nation; along with Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Lebanon, Libya, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.

Israel also imposes travel restrictions on Palestinians in the Jewish state.

Dozens of Israeli protesters amassed outside the US Embassy in Tel Aviv on Sunday to rally against Trump’s order and the policies of their own government.

Israel also imposes travel restrictions on Palestinians

The protest was organised by the campaign group Right Now: Advocates for African Asylum Seekers in Israel.

“We felt we needed to be doing something here to protest both the policies that have been going on in the United States and the policies going on in Israel for years,” the group’s co-founder, Elliot Glassenberg, told The Jerusalem Post.

“We believe that only by taking a global approach can we truly address the global refugee crisis.”

Donald Trump said there was a precedent for his executive order, claiming Obama temporarily stopped processing Iraqi refugees in 2011. According to the Washington Post the then-president enforced a more stringent screening process, but never imposed a ban. Enhanced screening came into force after the FBI arrested two Iraqi asylum seekers on terrorism charges in Kentucky.

In reality, there is no precedent for Trump’s travel ban, which has caused confusion as well as controversy; chiefly around the subject of why, if this has been done in the interests of national security, countries such as Egypt, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Mali, Colombia and Venezuela have been left off the list, given the US regards them as safe havens for terrorists.

The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) today added its opposition to travel bans, claiming they are inappropriate and ineffective.

"WTTC believes that banning people from crossing borders for business and leisure purposes based on their nationality or religion is fundamentally wrong and can divert resources away from more effective means of tackling terrorism and other threats," said WTTC president, David Scowsill.