I am not sure if they only attack in Creative if you switch from survival as they attack, but that's how i found out.
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Resolved this as a duplicate of MC-153697 since the issue was made in 03/Jun/19.
MC-157192
Iron Golems attempt to attack player in Creative mode
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I reported the bug wrong I think.