So I guess they are all Canaanites?

Canaanites (or Phoenicians as the Greeks called them) are mentioned throughout the bible as a rival to the Israelites. God punishes them for their immoral nature.

However, modern DNA analysis shows that modern Levantine Jews share over 50% of their ancestory with ancient Canaanites. Ashkenazi Jews have significant Levantine ancestory. They primarily migrated to Southern Europe and then to Central / Eastern Europe eventually forming communities in the Rhineland in the 10th century then later migrating to Poland / Russia. Palestinians and modern-day Lebanese people also share a large portion of Canaanite ancestory

Canaanites were considered by God as extremely wicked and commanded the Israelites to drive them out of the Promised Land to prevent the Israelites from adopting their corrupt practices. According to the Book of Joshua, the Israelites had sweeping victories over the Canaanites but the Book of Judges admits many Canaanite groups were not driven out. Instead, they lived alongside the Israelites, were pressed into forced labor, or gradually assimilated.

The primary reason for God's distain for these Canaanite groups is cited over and over as child sacrifice. Any Canaanites who turned to God and left their old wicked ways behind were spared by God. In the bible the land is described as having "vomited out" these Canaanites due to their wicked ways.

Immoral and wicked acts that the Canaanites indulged in include:

• Child Sacrifice – According to the Bible, Canaanites were condemned for acts of child sacrifice through fire. Though modern day scholars maintain these might have been stories made up by the Israelites to dehumanize their rivals – evidence of human sacrifice has been recently uncovered in archaeological findings of infant urns in Tophets, combined with Punic inscriptions, indicating the ritual sacrifice of young children to deities. These urns contained inscriptions mentioning the dedication of the children to the gods. The ancient Greeks and Romans also noted that the Phoenicians (Canaanites) had these practies.

• Idolatry / Polytheism – worship of the gods Baal and Asherah. Baal is associated with the storm god Hadad which is most notably associated with Bulls. Consider the recent Tehran protests depicting a bull-headed statue being burned. Also consider the supposed insider on 4chan who claimed that a person would wear a rubber bull's head masks during "rituals" or "plays." Alleging that individuals wearing these masks would roam the island at night and were given complete freedom to commit acts of violence or sexual abuse while masked.

• Open air shrines for worship and sacrifice – This ancient group also worshipped in open-air shrines or "high places". These were often elevated locations, outdoors. They had stone installations used for rituals, sacrifices, and community worship. There frequently featured standing stones (massebots), altars, and sometimes small simple shelters rather than elaborate temples. These sites were often on hills or near water sources. The color choices of these places of worship often include red ochre, white limestone, and black charcoal.

• Ritual Defecation – some Canaanite cults involved extreme shameful rituals such as defecating on the alter to Baal.

• Divination Practices – Canaanites were deeply involved in pagan rituals, including sorcery and communicating with spirits as they sought forms of guidance or divination.

Ritualized sexual acts:

• Sacred prostituation – Priests and Priestesses would engage in sexual acts with worshippers who came to make offerings to the shrines.

• Orgies – Large scale public bisexual orgies were held on holy days to commune with Baal.

• Ritualized Incest – mimicking the nature of their gods (such as Baal who was said to have had sex with his mother or sister). Heavy focus on fertility through ritual sex and temple prostitution to encourage the growth of crops.

• Beastiality – They also associated this with fertility.

Most of these aforementioned acts were accompanied by child sacrifice and were considered to be holy and righteous.

All of this was condemned by the Old Testament as an abomination. I've been researching this for several hours, but I am far form an expert. I've got sources for most this but I am not sure how accurate they are. To me it seems that there may be secret Canaanite cults that have survived hidden within Judaism (and potentially within other semitic groups in the Middle East). Knowing that both the Palestinians and modern Jews share a large portion of Canaanite ancestory makes me wonder about the aspect of human sacrifice of their own as an acceptable form of ritual, especially as conflict has escalated and violence has become more extreme. Feel free to correct (or add to) anything I may have gotten wrong here.

Maybe this is also why the word Holocaust translates to burnt offering.

Edit

Still gathering some info. Remember those weird pictures of Philippe De Rothschild's pendant? It's a bull's head.