Humza Yousaf

Proud girl dad, husband and Former First Minister of Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

"Under Fire: My Family's Escape from Gaza" Pre-order link below ↓

[Sky News @SkyNews]

Netanyahu "should be prosecuted", Nobel Peace Prize winner Navi Pillay tells @SkyYaldaHakim.

She also criticised President Trump for using language she says could incite violence.

Pillay was recognised for her efforts to promote peace and international law.

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[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Just what will history judge?

Was beloved author Sally Rooney really a dangerous supporter of terrorism?

Was the banning of her books under anti-terror legislation a sign of sanity?

Or will it be those who cheered on the erasure of Gaza judged as monsters?

It’s a tough one!

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

"I wonder if he will ever reflect back on this moment and think 'I should have made a different decision.' I hope he does."

@HumzaYousaf, ex-leader of Scotland, on how Palestine is a moral litmus test for public figures like Ed Sheeran, as well as political leaders.

Watch the full episode of Downstream on our YouTube channel.

[Humza Yousaf @HumzaYousaf]

Pleasure to be on @GMB talking about my book, Under Fire.

Although the story is very personal about what our family went through while my in-laws were in Gaza, what of the 2m Palestinians still suffering 3 years into a genocide.

And why one earth has the world not stopped it?

[Prof Ben Saul - UN SR Human Rights & Counterterror @profbensaul]

I urge the US not to follow the Islamic State, Hamas, the Taliban and Iran in holding public executions

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

.@HumzaYousaf: ".. those 4 weeks were really tough. Every day they're wondering if the next [Israeli] jet they hear is the one thats going to kill them. What must it be like for the people of Gaza who have now endured that, what I would consider a genocide, for the last 3 years"

[Humza Yousaf @HumzaYousaf]

They are right.

[Ben Bloch @realBenBloch]

Ed Miliband and the foreign ministers of Australia, Canada, and France, have released a joint statement saying they "deeply regret the Palestinian President’s decision to postpone" the elections.

Worth noting that when the UK recognised Palestine last year, it said Abbas committed to "organising new elections within a year of a ceasefire".

[Humza Yousaf @HumzaYousaf]

If your defence against genocide is Israel has *only* killed around 100,000 people, that's not the win you think it is.

Reason the independent UN Commission found Israel guilty of genocide is because their actions, coupled with ample evidence of intent meets the legal threshold.

[Simon Schama @simon_schama]

Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics states population of Gaza before October 7th at 2.2 million; 2026 at 2.1 million. Of course there has been atrocious brutality and tragedy, during the war, not least because Hamas fought it in a densely populated civilian area. But this is not a genocide. The loss is 4.55% of the Gaza population. 70% of Tutsis were murdered in that genocide; probably 75% of Ottoman Armenians in the massacres, famine an death marches; 66% of European Jews in the war. Please read some history

[Kay Burley @KayBurley]

Yes, Joey. She’s a democratically elected British MP, a former council leader, and she’s wearing a hijab.

Which part of that do you find so difficult to accept?

Her politics are fair game.

Her religion and her clothes are not.

[Chris Doyle @Doylech]

These attacks all must stop. It is a chronic and dangerous failure of diplomacy. Iranian attacks on shipping in Omani territorial waters as I was briefed on an @caabu delegation last week are daily.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

It's not often you get to talk about Israeli terrorism on television!

[ScotlandTonight @ScotlandTonight]

"I get a call from Nadia's mother saying that they think they're about to die."

Former First Minister @HumzaYousaf joins us to discuss his new book 'Under Fire', in which he tells the story of his desperate attempts to get his in-laws out of Gaza and back home to Scotland.

Watch the full interview on Scotland Tonight:

📺️ STV at 10:40pm
📱 https://t.co/fwQuENrKiP

[Humza Yousaf @HumzaYousaf]

Debate Islam all you want. Perfectly legitimate.

That's not what you're doing. You're asserting that Muslims are not compatible with life in Britain and therefore do not belong here.

That isn't debate, that is lighting the fuse and hoping others will throw the molotov cocktail.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

@HumzaYousaf These aggressive attempts to shut down any debate around Islam have worked for decades. It will not work any longer.

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

@AaronBastani asks @HumzaYousaf what it was like governing Scotland while his family were trapped in Gaza during October 2023.

https://t.co/morPKBF7RU

[Humza Yousaf @HumzaYousaf]

When Muslim fought against Nazis, as part of the British Indian Army, thousands of them sacrificing their lives - was that also incompatible with the British way of life?

Lowe's language is comparable to rhetoric used by Nazis against Jews.

As deplorable now, as it was then.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Islam, as practiced by millions of Muslims in Britain, is entirely incompatible with our British way of life.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Humza Yousaf, as Scotland’s First Minister, called for a ceasefire in Gaza as quickly as October 10.

He asked Starmer privately to follow suit.

How did so many western leaders, from Canada to Britain, get this so, so wrong?

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

"Starmer phoned me as leader of opposition, on a private call... I I tried to persuade him to back a ceasefire, obviously unsuccessfully."

@AaronBastani in conversation with @HumzaYousaf, former first minister of Scotland. Yousaf’s wife's family were trapped in Gaza in October 2023.

Watch the full episode of Downstream on our YouTube channel.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

At 3:30 I’m joined by @HumzaYousaf

I ask if he has regrets from his time in office.

Is Zionism racism? And what does he think about THAT motion?

And what was it like governing a nation while his parents-in-law were stranded in Gaza facing bombs? https://t.co/frIvZHrAme

[Humza Yousaf @HumzaYousaf]

The distinguished judge & legal expert Navi Pillay has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Few are as worthty.

The independent UN Commission she led gathered evidence that concluded Israel was committing genocide.

If you're still denying genocide, whose side are you on?

[Alison Thewliss @alisonthewliss]

If Thomas Kerr was concerned about people wearing balaclavas, it's odd he didn't mention them specifically in his motion, and stranger still that he speaks to the rallies attended by these threatening men...