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- 1 2 3 4 5 Still Fighting Apartheid, Profile: Rev Malcolm Hedding, ICEJ Executive Director. By Lela Gilbert, Jerusalem Post 7 May 2007
- ↑ Official biography
- ↑ Malcolm Hedding: Why Christians are Indebted to Israel. CBN.
- ↑ "New Generation of Leadership Appointed at the ICEJ". ICEJ. 9 March 2018. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
- ↑ Friends in Deed. By Lee Smith, Tablet, 16 March 2010
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