Pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli protesters gather outside Obama speech at Glasgow's Hydro

Rival demonstrations formed outside the Hydro in Glasgow on 14 October 2026, at an event the contributor says was a speech by Barack Obama. Palestinian flags and a Saltire fly above a long black banner strung along the barrier line, where a man in a keffiyeh leads chants through a megaphone. A second man wraps himself in an Israeli flag and holds it open in front of the same banner, face to face with a woman holding a microphone, and later raises the flag between himself and the crowd. Another frame shows a man shouting into a microphone with fists and phones raised behind him. A Police Scotland officer is pictured speaking to a man at the edge of the crowd as a phone is held up between them, with the lit BBC Scotland building across the water behind the protest.