Bachman is known for his snide and at times controversial comments, and was criticized in the past for expressing strong opinions against Muslim immigrants to Sweden. In January 2015, an anti-Muslim post he penned and publish on his Facebook page evoked a lot of outrage. "It's hard to find peace-seeking Muslims," the ambassador wrote. "The Muslims are not happy in any Muslim country" and "also blame the others" for their condition, he added.Bachman wrote his post at the time as a reaction to the lethal Charlie Hebdo terror attack that struck Paris in which 12 people were killed and 11 others injured when two brothers stormed the Paris offices of the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo. Bachman said that it was not incidental that the the two were Muslim and named a slew of terror attacks that were carried out by Muslim terrorists in the recent past. "In all of the instances, the terrorists were Muslim," he wrote. "And we didn't even touch on the thousands of terror attacks against Israel and against other Muslims," he added.Sweden's critical stance towards Israeli policies that has been expressed at crucial UN votes in the past has been the cause of a diplomatic tiff between the Scandinavian country and the Jewish state. On May 2, Sweden was the only EU country to vote in favor of a UNESCO resolution that rejected Israel's sovereignty in Jerusalem. Israel responded with anger over Sweden's actions, and summoned Ambassador Carl Magnus Nesser to the Foreign Ministry to protest Sweden's vote.The Swedish Foreign Ministry issued a statement explaining its vote in which it said that it "welcomes the constructive efforts undertaken by Palestine and Jordan in presenting a more focused draft resolution to the [UNESCO] executive board. The text has improved substantially compared to previous years."Tovah Lazaroff contributed to this report.Now, that #Israel 's MFA and ambassador are blocked - #Sweden is much safer in reading Iran and others, that were not blocked.@SweInstitute https://t.co/C87XzwTikb
— Isaac Bachman (@isaacbachman) May 16, 2017