When opening a chest (occurs with other blocks as well) while holding a spear causes the jab animation to play. Furthermore, when left or right clicking on elements in the UI such as interacting with inventory items also causes this
To replicate:
Aquire a spear
interact with a chest or other block with an UI while still holding the spear
Interact with items in the menu and the jab animation should play
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Duplicate of MC-302661
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This may be due to the spear having unique attack mechanics as opposed to other weapons.
Mojang if you see this the best solution would probably be to completely lock spear attacks while in menus.